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 329 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 510 pixels and compressed the image at 65% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 370 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 305 pixels and compressed the image at 61% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 433 pixels and compressed the image at 48% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 514 pixels and compressed the image at 63% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 416 pixels and compressed the image at 36% jpeg quality.

After that, they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 544 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 404 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 466 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 33 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 549 pixels, compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 478 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 366 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 503 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 319 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 21 color gif.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 541 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 432 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 48 color gif and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 483 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 526 pixels, compressed the image at 13% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 458 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 46 color gif and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 401 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and then they reduced to a 40 color gif.

Someone reduced to a 46 color gif and then they resized the image to 345 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Finally they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 428 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis