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Guinea vs United States
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Guinea and United States are 38% apart. They are closer than 97% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Guinea, matched with the nearest colour on United States, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009460#00205b116
- #ce1126#bf0a3015
- #fcd116#ffffff233
The colour that separates them is yellow against white: #fcd116 against #ffffff, 233 apart.
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Guinea: vertical bands. Only United States: horizontal bands, a canton.
Guinea is flown 1.50 : 1 and United States 1.90 : 1.
What each one carries
United States carries a star. Guinea 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 Guinea and United States score 97.9 out of 255, which is the 38% 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.