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 490 pixels and compressed the image at 48% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 50 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 348 pixels and compressed the image at 48% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 393 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 53 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 373 pixels and compressed the image at 44% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 321 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 487 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 384 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 386 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 317 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 397 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 370 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 549 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 444 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 428 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 324 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 435 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 535 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 390 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 435 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 319 pixels, compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 459 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 558 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 390 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 38 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 355 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 497 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 405 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 455 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis