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Philippines vs South Sudan
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%.
Philippines and South Sudan are 50% apart. A typical pair of flags is 68% apart.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Philippines, matched with the nearest colour on South Sudan, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #0038a8#00914c92
- #ce1126#e2202820
- #ffffff#ffffff0
- #fcd116#000000252
The colour that separates them is yellow against black: #fcd116 against #000000, 252 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Only South Sudan: a triangle at the pole.
What each one carries
Both carry a star.
Philippines carries a sun. South Sudan carries nothing at all.
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 Philippines and South Sudan score 126.4 out of 255, which is the 50% 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.