Look-alikes · Ivory Coast · Ireland
Ivory Coast vs Ireland
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Mirror Tricolors.
Ivory Coast and Ireland are 47% apart. They are closer than 90% of the flag pairs in the world.
Ireland is green at the pole and Ivory Coast is orange. They are mirror images, and Ireland is flown the longer.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Ivory Coast, matched with the nearest colour on Ireland, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #009a44#169b6230
- #ff8200#ff883e62
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a orange: #ff8200 against #ff883e, 62 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as vertical bands.
Ivory Coast runs orange, white and green from the pole. Ireland runs green, white and orange from the pole.
Ivory Coast is flown 1.50 : 1 and Ireland 2.00 : 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 Ivory Coast and Ireland score 118.7 out of 255, which is the 47% 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.