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Gabon vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The same colours, turned the other way. Gabon was measured as horizontal bands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as vertical bands.
The tiles put them 68% apart, against 68% for a typical pair. A measurement answers whether two pictures match. People mix these two up because the colours do.
Gabon runs green, yellow and blue across; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines runs blue, yellow and green down.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Gabon, matched with the nearest colour on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009e60#007c2e50
- #3a75c4#00267480
- #fcd116#fcd02212
The colour that separates them is a blue: #3a75c4 against #002674, 80 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Gabon: horizontal bands. Only Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: vertical bands.
Gabon runs green, yellow and blue from the top. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines runs blue, yellow and green from the pole.
Gabon is flown 1.33 : 1 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.50 : 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 Gabon and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines score 172.3 out of 255, which is the 68% 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.