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Colombia vs Ecuador
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as The Gran Colombia Trio.
Colombia and Ecuador are 33% apart. They are closer than 98% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Colombia, matched with the nearest colour on Ecuador, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #ffcd00#ffdd0016
- #003087#034ea230
- #c8102e#ed1c2437
The colour that separates them is a red: #c8102e against #ed1c24, 37 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Both run yellow, blue and red from the top.
Both are flown at the same shape, 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
Ecuador carries a coat of arms and a mountain. Colombia carries nothing at all.
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 Colombia and Ecuador score 85.1 out of 255, which is the 33% 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.