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 added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 549 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 307 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 436 pixels and compressed the image at 39% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 429 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 404 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 382 pixels and compressed the image at 49% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 320 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 558 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 449 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 506 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 407 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 535 pixels, compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 398 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 536 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 18 color gif.

Then they reduced to a 22 color gif and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 465 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 18 color gif and someone else resized the image to 410 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 491 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 363 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 437 pixels, compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 396 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 427 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 24 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 547 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 487 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 560 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 374 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 563 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis