Look-alikes · Guinea · Mali
Guinea vs Mali
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.
Guinea and Mali are 52% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Mali and Guinea are mirrors of each other. Mali is green at the pole; Guinea is red.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Guinea, matched with the nearest colour on Mali, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009460#14b53a38
- #ce1126#ce11260
- #fcd116#fcd1160
The colour that separates them is a green: #009460 against #14b53a, 38 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as vertical bands.
Guinea runs red, yellow and green from the pole. Mali runs green, yellow and red from the pole.
Both are flown at the same shape, 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 Guinea and Mali score 131.7 out of 255, which is the 52% 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.