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 reduced to a 42 color gif.

Someone resized the image to 390 pixels and compressed the image at 52% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 351 pixels and compressed the image at 53% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 334 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 24 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 392 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 451 pixels and compressed the image at 43% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 542 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 29 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 488 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 459 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 440 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 423 pixels and compressed the image at 26% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 366 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and after that and they reduced to a 45 color gif.

Then someone reduced to a 30 color gif and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 436 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 31 color gif and then they resized the image to 416 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 520 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and after that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 496 pixels and compressed the image at 34% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 561 pixels, compressed the image at 29% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 313 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 495 pixels, compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 388 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 322 pixels, compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 542 pixels and compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 316 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 422 pixels and compressed the image at 14% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 357 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis