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.

After that, they resized the image to 471 pixels and compressed the image at 40% jpeg quality.

Someone resized the image to 352 pixels and compressed the image at 64% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 355 pixels and compressed the image at 27% jpeg quality.

Someone reduced to a 51 color gif.

After that, they added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 445 pixels and compressed the image at 22% jpeg quality.

Then they added a bit of contrast, added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 393 pixels and compressed the image at 40% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 308 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 336 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 23 color gif.

Someone else added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 530 pixels and compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality.

Then someone resized the image to 306 pixels, compressed the image at 25% jpeg quality and after that, they resized the image to 560 pixels and compressed the image at 11% jpeg quality.

Someone else resized the image to 487 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and then they added a bit of sharpen because it looked blurry, resized the image to 403 pixels and compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality.

Then someone reduced to a 24 color gif and then they reduced to a 32 color gif.

Someone else resized the image to 506 pixels, compressed the image at 19% jpeg quality and someone resized the image to 410 pixels and compressed the image at 20% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 402 pixels, compressed the image at 33% jpeg quality and someone added a bit of contrast, resized the image to 433 pixels and compressed the image at 30% jpeg quality.

Someone else reduced to a 26 color gif and someone reduced to a 22 color gif.

Then someone resized the image to 570 pixels, compressed the image at 17% jpeg quality and then someone resized the image to 314 pixels and compressed the image at 15% jpeg quality.

After that, they resized the image to 382 pixels, compressed the image at 31% jpeg quality and then they resized the image to 407 pixels and compressed the image at 23% jpeg quality.

Then they resized the image to 538 pixels and compressed the image at 21% jpeg quality and someone else reduced to a 42 color gif.

Finally they reduced to a 11 color gif.

Oh my, that got pretty bad.

Website by Joachim Michaelis