Look-alikes · Iceland · Palau
Iceland vs Palau
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Iceland and Palau are 44% apart. They are closer than 93% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Iceland, matched with the nearest colour on Palau, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #02529c#0099ff99
- #dc1e35#ffff00225
- #ffffffonly on Iceland
How they are put together
Nothing about how they are built was measured the same on both.
Only Palau: a single-coloured ground, a disc.
What each one carries
Iceland carries a cross. Palau carries a moon.
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 Iceland and Palau score 111.6 out of 255, which is the 44% 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.