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 37 color gif.

After that and they reduced to a 32 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 502 pixels and compressed the image at 41% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 580 pixels and compressed the image at 56% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 570 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 318 pixels and compressed the image at 61% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 504 pixels and compressed the image at 51% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 371 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 555 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 487 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 319 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 551 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 413 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 47 color gif and someone reduced to a 12 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 418 pixels, compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 554 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 553 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 424 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 351 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 302 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 333 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 501 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 35 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 329 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 361 pixels, compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 310 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 409 pixels, compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 377 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Finally they reduced to a 25 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

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