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British Indian Ocean Territory vs Zimbabwe
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
British Indian Ocean Territory and Zimbabwe are 45% apart. They are closer than 91% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on British Indian Ocean Territory, matched with the nearest colour on Zimbabwe, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #012169#006400105
- #c8102e#d4000046
The colour that separates them is blue against green: #012169 against #006400, 105 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Zimbabwe: horizontal bands.
What each one carries
British Indian Ocean Territory carries a tree and a crown. Zimbabwe carries a star and a bird.
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 British Indian Ocean Territory and Zimbabwe score 116 out of 255, which is the 45% 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.