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 added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 563 pixels and compressed the image at 67% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 313 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 51 color gif.

Then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 437 pixels and compressed the image at 67% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 544 pixels and compressed the image at 43% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 483 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 63 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 35 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 395 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 360 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 427 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 23 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 543 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 359 pixels, compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 509 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 330 pixels, compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 454 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 515 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 16 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 24 color gif and someone else resized the image to 324 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 561 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 434 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 563 pixels, compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 472 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 524 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 46 color gif.

After that, they reduced to a 34 color gif and someone resized the image to 413 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Finally someone reduced to a 27 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis