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 contrast, resized the image to 552 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 38 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 385 pixels and compressed the image at 52% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 50 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 401 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 422 pixels and compressed the image at 55% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 507 pixels and compressed the image at 68% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 498 pixels and compressed the image at 12% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 61 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 578 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 532 pixels and compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 43 color gif and someone resized the image to 572 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 513 pixels, compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 20 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 547 pixels, compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 318 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 551 pixels, compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 552 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 36 color gif and someone reduced to a 48 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 354 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 16 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 16 color gif and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 329 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 304 pixels and compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 18 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 330 pixels and compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 24 color gif.

Finally they resized the image to 340 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis