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 366 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 300 pixels and compressed the image at 46% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 346 pixels and compressed the image at 69% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 425 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 519 pixels and compressed the image at 63% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 334 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 34 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 480 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 397 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 373 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 428 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 17 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 513 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 27 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 423 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 375 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 449 pixels, compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 346 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 566 pixels, compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 554 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 47 color gif and someone else resized the image to 520 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 18 color gif and after that and they reduced to a 30 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 43 color gif and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 525 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 420 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 314 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Finally someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 323 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis