Graphics

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.

First someone resized the image to 441 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 52 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 416 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 58 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 519 pixels and compressed the image at 69% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 565 pixels and compressed the image at 47% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 33 color gif.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 530 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 323 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 306 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 25 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 560 pixels, compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 42 color gif and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 562 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 335 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 402 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 392 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 18 color gif and someone reduced to a 20 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 12 color gif and someone else resized the image to 455 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 39 color gif and then they resized the image to 524 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 310 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 523 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 28 color gif and then someone resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Finally they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 430 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis