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 reduced to a 59 color gif.

Then they reduced to a 39 color gif.

Then they reduced to a 47 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 463 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 323 pixels and compressed the image at 58% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 381 pixels and compressed the image at 67% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 551 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 507 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 399 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 393 pixels, compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 349 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 559 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 28 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 419 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 503 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 546 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 35 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 525 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 468 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 494 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 20 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 412 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 569 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 402 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 27 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 373 pixels, compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 559 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis