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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.

First someone resized the image to 483 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 349 pixels and compressed the image at 56% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 499 pixels and compressed the image at 49% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 484 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 58 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 485 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 407 pixels and compressed the image at 51% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 378 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 456 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 32 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 405 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 302 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 354 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 366 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 554 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 490 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 445 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 375 pixels, compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 518 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 308 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 453 pixels and compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 495 pixels, compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 445 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 327 pixels, compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 496 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 520 pixels, compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 400 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 528 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 29 color gif.

Finally they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 394 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

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