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France vs Luxembourg
The same colours, turned the other way. France was measured as vertical bands, Luxembourg as horizontal bands.
The tiles put them 84% apart, which is further than the 68% of a typical pair. A measurement answers whether two pictures match. People mix these two up because the colours do.
Where the difference is
Each colour on France, matched with the nearest colour on Luxembourg, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #002654#00a3e0140
- #ce1126#ef334034
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a blue: #002654 against #00a3e0, 140 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only France: vertical bands. Only Luxembourg: horizontal bands.
France runs blue, white and red from the pole. Luxembourg runs red, white and blue from the top.
France is flown 1.50 : 1 and Luxembourg 1.67 : 1.
What each one carries
Neither carries a charge. The difference is all colour and shape.
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 France and Luxembourg score 214.3 out of 255, which is the 84% 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.