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 362 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 63 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 54 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 544 pixels and compressed the image at 67% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 474 pixels and compressed the image at 48% jpeg quality.

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

Someone else resized the image to 336 pixels and compressed the image at 54% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 355 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 496 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 326 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 35 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 303 pixels, compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 473 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 327 pixels, compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 498 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 30 color gif and after that, they resized the image to 437 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 459 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 331 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 40 color gif and someone else reduced to a 13 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 468 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 538 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 417 pixels, compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 472 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 528 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and someone reduced to a 25 color gif.

Someone added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 383 pixels, compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 546 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Finally they reduced to a 30 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis