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 363 pixels and compressed the image at 39% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 52 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 394 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 369 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 364 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 449 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 49 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 367 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 400 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 515 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 304 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 376 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 539 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 35 color gif and someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 428 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 319 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 43 color gif.

After that, they reduced to a 38 color gif and then someone resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 312 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 12 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 36 color gif and then someone resized the image to 540 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 500 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 35 color gif.

After that, they reduced to a 48 color gif and someone else resized the image to 338 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 383 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 544 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 433 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis