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Internet Image Degradation

Do things grow old in cyberspace? The answer is "yes"...

When pictures are constantly copied from website to website, and recompressed and rescaled every time, an interesting loss of quality occurs gradually over time. This page tries to simulate and display this gradual devolution. The first picture is the original.

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First someone reduced to a 64 color gif.

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Then they resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 69% jpeg quality.

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Someone resized the image to 343 pixels and compressed the image at 62% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 576 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

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Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 66% jpeg quality.

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Then someone reduced to a 33 color gif.

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Someone resized the image to 330 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

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After that and they reduced to a 33 color gif.

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Someone resized the image to 379 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

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Someone resized the image to 570 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 387 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 514 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 352 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

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Then they resized the image to 457 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 303 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

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Then they resized the image to 548 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 439 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

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Then they reduced to a 23 color gif and then they resized the image to 433 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 464 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 568 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

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Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 330 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 354 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

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Then they resized the image to 553 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 35 color gif.

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Then someone reduced to a 25 color gif and then someone resized the image to 493 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

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Someone resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 26 color gif.

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Finally they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 429 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.


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