Colors of the World's Flags

Posted by Minnesotastan in Everything Else, Travel & Places on October 25, 2009 at 12:04 pm

colors of world flagsMedia designer Shahee Ilyas has created pie charts showing the colors of the flags of over 200 nations.

Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colours on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colours for all the flags combined.

Embedded on top is a screencap of a portion of the display, alphabetically arranged (Afghanistan, Albania…); the original at the artist’s website will display the name of the country when a mouse is passed over the pie chart.  The larger pie chart on the bottom is a composite of all the colors from all of the flags.

Via The Life and Times of Michael5000, who notes that the color violet/lavender/purple is notably absent from world flags (as is gray).

 
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Posted by Alex in Food & Drinks, Funny on July 4, 2009 at 4:47 pm


Image: xenonofarcticus [Flickr], modified from bacon photo by Yogma

Just in time for Fourth of July, here’s American Bacon by Chris Hanson of Pocket Bacon. Who says that pork products can’t be patriotic?

 
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