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 57 color gif.

After that, they resized the image to 412 pixels and compressed the image at 32% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 533 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 326 pixels and compressed the image at 38% jpeg quality.

Then they reduced to a 52 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 396 pixels and compressed the image at 67% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 483 pixels and compressed the image at 28% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 56 color gif.

Then someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 324 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality.

Someone added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 477 pixels and compressed the image at 9% jpeg quality.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 387 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 328 pixels, compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 328 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 391 pixels, compressed the image at 10% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 563 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 384 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 519 pixels and compressed the image at 18% jpeg quality.

After that and they reduced to a 34 color gif and then they reduced to a 17 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 470 pixels, compressed the image at 8% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 529 pixels and compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 483 pixels, compressed the image at 24% jpeg quality and someone else resized the image to 447 pixels and compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 393 pixels and compressed the image at 35% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 43 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 573 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality and then someone reduced to a 22 color gif.

Then they resized the image to 484 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 577 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Finally they resized the image to 394 pixels and compressed the image at 16% jpeg quality.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis