Look-alikes · Australia · New Zealand
Australia vs New Zealand
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Australia or New Zealand?.
Australia and New Zealand are 26% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Australia's stars are white and there are more of them; New Zealand's are red.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Australia, matched with the nearest colour on New Zealand, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #012169#0121690
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #e4002b#c8102e28
The colour that separates them is a red: #e4002b against #c8102e, 28 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as a single-coloured ground, a canton.
Both are flown at the same shape, 2.00 : 1.
What each one carries
Both carry a star.
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 Australia and New Zealand score 66.4 out of 255, which is the 26% 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.