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 34 color gif.

Then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 550 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 324 pixels and compressed the image at 49% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 36 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 504 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 64 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 441 pixels and compressed the image at 57% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 579 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 43 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 378 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 366 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 40 color gif and then someone resized the image to 520 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 10 color gif and after that and they reduced to a 31 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 449 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 337 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 33 color gif and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 542 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 405 pixels, compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 316 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 550 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 44 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 25 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 408 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 441 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 16 color gif.

Finally someone reduced to a 27 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis