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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.

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First someone resized the image to 302 pixels and compressed the image at 70% jpeg quality.

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Then someone resized the image to 570 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

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Then they resized the image to 407 pixels and compressed the image at 37% jpeg quality.

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Someone reduced to a 42 color gif.

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Then they resized the image to 541 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

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Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 340 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

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Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 478 pixels and compressed the image at 70% jpeg quality.

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Someone resized the image to 545 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

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Someone else reduced to a 36 color gif.

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After that, they resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 369 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

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Then someone reduced to a 28 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 342 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

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Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 548 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 450 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

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After that, they resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 16 color gif.

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Someone else reduced to a 17 color gif and then someone resized the image to 312 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

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Someone else resized the image to 482 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 439 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

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Someone else resized the image to 481 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 450 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

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Then someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 487 pixels, compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 412 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

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After that and they reduced to a 26 color gif and someone else reduced to a 33 color gif.

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After that, they resized the image to 487 pixels, compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 478 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

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Finally they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 329 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.