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 396 pixels and compressed the image at 64% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 577 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 352 pixels and compressed the image at 45% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 566 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 412 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 48 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 426 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 301 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 452 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 38 color gif.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 431 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 471 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 422 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 509 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 334 pixels, compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 365 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 25 color gif and someone else resized the image to 461 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 545 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 376 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 572 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 570 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 431 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 314 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 517 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 556 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 382 pixels, compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 343 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Finally they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 301 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis