Look-alikes · Norfolk Island · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Norfolk Island vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Norfolk Island and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are 35% apart. They are closer than 98% of the flag pairs in the world.
Norfolk Island has a pine on white; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has none.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Norfolk Island, matched with the nearest colour on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #007934#007c2e6
- #ffffff#fcd022221
The colour that separates them is white against yellow: #ffffff against #fcd022, 221 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as vertical bands.
Norfolk Island runs green, white and green from the pole. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines runs blue, yellow and green from the pole.
Norfolk Island is flown 2.00 : 1 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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 Norfolk Island and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines score 88 out of 255, which is the 35% 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.