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 377 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 328 pixels and compressed the image at 45% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 49 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 452 pixels and compressed the image at 51% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 455 pixels and compressed the image at 40% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 450 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 322 pixels and compressed the image at 44% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 507 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 376 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 18 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 540 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 533 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 405 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 423 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 506 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 314 pixels, compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 542 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 10 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 537 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 516 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 468 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 34 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 15 color gif and then someone resized the image to 313 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 29 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 514 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 319 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 555 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Finally someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 457 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis