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 390 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 50 color gif.

Someone else reduced to a 53 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 468 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 414 pixels and compressed the image at 44% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 342 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 524 pixels and compressed the image at 52% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 482 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 486 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 377 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 16 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 476 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 532 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 455 pixels, compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 394 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 511 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 26 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 429 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 40 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 562 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 331 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 372 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 25 color gif.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 446 pixels, compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 336 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 312 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 12 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 362 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 10 color gif.

Finally someone resized the image to 508 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis