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 566 pixels and compressed the image at 37% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 514 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 33 color gif.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 454 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 25 color gif.

Someone else reduced to a 27 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 500 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 541 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 450 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 39 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 487 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 539 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 403 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 348 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 442 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 475 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 494 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 319 pixels, compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 462 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 417 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 528 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 364 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 576 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 405 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 35 color gif and then they resized the image to 478 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 438 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 371 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Finally they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 330 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

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