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 465 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 351 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 48 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 317 pixels and compressed the image at 60% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 311 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 54 color gif.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 391 pixels and compressed the image at 37% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 543 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 52 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 440 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 539 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 48 color gif and then they rotated the image, resized the image to 325 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 441 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 517 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 45 color gif and then someone resized the image to 528 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 25 color gif and then they resized the image to 553 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 551 pixels, compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 442 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 454 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 372 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 18 color gif and then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 401 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 45 color gif and someone else resized the image to 375 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 421 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 43 color gif.

Finally they reduced to a 31 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis