Look-alikes · Burkina Faso · Guinea-Bissau
Burkina Faso vs Guinea-Bissau
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Pan-African Colors.
Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau are 50% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Burkina Faso, matched with the nearest colour on Guinea-Bissau, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009e49#009e490
- #ef2b2d#ce112633
The colour that separates them is a red: #ef2b2d against #ce1126, 33 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Burkina Faso runs red and green from the top. Guinea-Bissau runs yellow and green from the top.
Burkina Faso is flown 1.50 : 1 and Guinea-Bissau 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 Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau score 127.3 out of 255, which is the 50% 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.