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 33 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 52 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 52 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 572 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 376 pixels and compressed the image at 61% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 527 pixels and compressed the image at 46% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 40 color gif.

Then they reduced to a 25 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 445 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 321 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 543 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 335 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 360 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 316 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 515 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 514 pixels and compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 304 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 568 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 33 color gif and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 418 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 33 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 401 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 30 color gif and then they resized the image to 431 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

After that, they reduced to a 25 color gif and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 360 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 512 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 329 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

Finally they reduced to a 48 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis