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Luxembourg vs Netherlands
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Dutch or Luxembourgish?.
Luxembourg and Netherlands are 28% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
The Netherlands and Luxembourg run red, white and blue in the same order. Luxembourg's blue is the lighter, and it is flown the longer.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Luxembourg, matched with the nearest colour on Netherlands, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #00a3e0#21468b93
- #ef3340#ae1c2865
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a blue: #00a3e0 against #21468b, 93 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Both run red, white and blue from the top.
Luxembourg is flown 1.67 : 1 and Netherlands 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 Luxembourg and Netherlands score 70.3 out of 255, which is the 28% 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.