Look-alikes · Austria · Latvia
Austria vs Latvia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Red-White-Red Bands.
Austria and Latvia are 27% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Austria and Latvia are both red, white and red across. Latvia is flown much the longer, and its red is the darker.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Austria, matched with the nearest colour on Latvia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #c8102e#9d223543
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a red: #c8102e against #9d2235, 43 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Both run red, white and red from the top.
Austria is flown 1.50 : 1 and Latvia 2.00 : 1.
What each one carries
Neither carries a charge. The difference is all colour and shape.
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 Austria and Latvia score 69.4 out of 255, which is the 27% 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.