JPEG compression 600 times over

By at 3:28 pm Sunday, Mar 22


Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.

The pitch for this little video has the elegant and demented simplicity that is the hallmark of all great ideas: "Open the last saved jpeg image. Save it as a new jpeg image with slightly more compression. Repeat 600 times"

Generation Loss (via Beyond the Beyond)

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