Look-alikes · Belize · Laos
Belize vs Laos
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Belize and Laos are 25% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Belize and Laos are both red, blue and red with a disc in the middle. Belize's disc is white with a crest; Laos' is plain white.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Belize, matched with the nearest colour on Laos, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #171696#00286846
- #d90f19#ce112613
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a blue: #171696 against #002868, 46 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands, a disc.
Both run red, blue and red from the top.
Belize is flown 1.67 : 1 and Laos 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
Belize carries a coat of arms, writing, a human figure, a tree, and a leaf. Laos carries a moon.
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 Belize and Laos score 63.1 out of 255, which is the 25% 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.
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The flags the pipeline measured nearest to these two.