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Mexico vs Senegal
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Mexico and Senegal are 27% apart. They are closer than 99% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Mexico, matched with the nearest colour on Senegal, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #006847#00853f29
- #ce1126#e31b2321
- #ffffff#fdef42189
The colour that separates them is white against yellow: #ffffff against #fdef42, 189 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as vertical bands.
What each one carries
Mexico carries a coat of arms, a bird, an eagle, and some other animal. Senegal carries a star.
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 Mexico and Senegal score 69 out of 255, which is the 27% 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.