Look-alikes · Russia · Slovakia
Russia vs Slovakia
Two copies of one picture are 0% apart and the widest pair in the world is 100%. The app files them together as Pan-Slavic Tricolors.
Russia and Slovakia are 46% apart. They are closer than 90% of the flag pairs in the world.
Where the difference is
Each colour on Russia, matched with the nearest colour on Slovakia, and how far apart the two are, the number is the worst single tile, out of 255.
- #0039a6#254aa537
- #d52b1e#ed1c2424
- #ffffff#ffffff0
The colour that separates them is a blue: #0039a6 against #254aa5, 37 apart.
How they are put together
Both were measured as horizontal bands.
Both run white, blue and red from the top.
Both are flown at the same shape, 1.50 : 1.
What each one carries
Slovakia carries a coat of arms. Russia 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 Russia and Slovakia score 117.6 out of 255, which is the 46% 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.