Look-alikes · Aruba · Pakistan
Aruba vs Pakistan
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Aruba and Pakistan are 47% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Aruba, matched with the nearest colour on Pakistan, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #418fde#ffffff190
- #ffd100#01411c254
The colour that separates them is yellow against green: #ffd100 against #01411c, 254 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Aruba: horizontal bands. Only Pakistan: vertical bands.
What each one carries
Both carry a star.
Pakistan carries a crescent. Aruba carries nothing at all.
How the number was arrived at
Both flags are drawn at 64×48 and cut into squares 8 across. Each square is averaged to one colour, and the score is the worst single square, so two flags that agree everywhere except one corner are as far apart as that corner, which is the right answer to a question about whether anybody could tell them apart. 0 is the same picture; the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
On that scale Aruba and Pakistan score 119.5 out of 255, which is the 47% above.
It cannot see everything. Both flags are stretched to the same box, so Indonesia and Monaco, which differ in nothing else, are measured as their reds rather than as identical. The look-alikes page sets out the rest.
Also close
The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.