Look-alikes · Cayman Islands · British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands vs British Virgin Islands
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands are 11% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
The Cayman Islands carries a lion and a fish; the British Virgin Islands a person.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Cayman Islands, matched with the nearest colour on British Virgin Islands, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #012169#0121690
- #c8102e#c8102e0
- #ffffff#ffffff0
Every colour on Cayman Islands has an exact match on British Virgin Islands. What separates them is not paint.
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 coat of arms and writing.
Cayman Islands carries a star, a lion, and a fish. British Virgin Islands carries a human figure.
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 Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands score 28.2 out of 255, which is the 11% 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.