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 41 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 550 pixels and compressed the image at 40% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 330 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 36 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 344 pixels and compressed the image at 70% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 31 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 571 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 29 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 524 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 535 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 495 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 327 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 450 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 490 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 511 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 534 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 563 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 530 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 394 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 302 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 379 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 431 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 21 color gif.

Someone else reduced to a 37 color gif and then someone reduced to a 14 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 400 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 29 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 493 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 44 color gif.

Finally someone resized the image to 529 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis