Comments on: World flag pie charts

World flag pie charts

tepidmonkey — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:51:58 -0800

Pie charts that represent the proportional amount of color in each country's national flag. Similar to this (previously), only not as pointed.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:52:23 -0800

Via Information Aesthetics.

By: L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:10:35 -0800

You know, just last week I was wondering which country most resembles Pac-Man.* Turns out it's Niue. * No I wasn't.

By: cerebus19

cerebus19 — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:12:21 -0800

Mmm, colorful flag pies. I feel as though I should find it more interesting than I do. It's not that it's less pointed than the art you linked to; it's that there doesn't seem to be any point to it.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:20:44 -0800

That "all flags combined one" is pretty cool. It's neat to see all the different shade of red. I wonder how much debate goes into that. "#D21034 will never do, only #CE1126 is worthy of representing the blood spilt in the name of liberty etc."

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:21:32 -0800

it's a fun mental challenge to map the discs to countries.

By: afx237vi

afx237vi — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:25:26 -0800

Some of them are guessable, definitely. I got Argentina, Germany and Cyprus straight away (then realised they're in alphabetical order).

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:30:18 -0800

I had a bitch trying to find the United States; lotso similar charts (then realised they're in alphabetical order).

By: danb

danb — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:35:18 -0800

I got Libya.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:36:41 -0800

They should have made the Czech Republic one look identical.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:39:27 -0800

Wocka wocka wocka.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:39:54 -0800

I guessed my flag straight away which is making me feel rather smug. Sure, it was a total fluke and the only one I tried, but still. Might as well feel accomplished where ever I can.

By: bhouston

bhouston — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:55:46 -0800

I like the Albania, it great for a gaming clan symbol.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:58:39 -0800

Without looking, I can tell you the Jolly Roger is not there.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:59:06 -0800

It's easier to guess when you realize they're alphabetical by country name.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:00:17 -0800

I've always wondered why red, white, and to a lesser extent blue ended up as the most commonly used colours for national flags.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:01:43 -0800

cillit bang, I had the same thought.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:05:56 -0800

Huh. Looks like America has the same amount of red as white. I was expecting more white because I forgot it starts and ends with red, and the stars are white. Well, you learn something everyday. I was hoping for a bit more today, though.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:13:15 -0800

My roommate and I had an argument over whether there was more red or white in the U.S. flag. We decided we couldn't tell because the pie chart was too small, but I bet whoever made the charts has access to the raw percentages. I do not know why I'm so fascinated by this.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:58:23 -0800

Histogramming this version: 37.7% white (2.0% stars, 35.7% stripes), 40.5% red, 17.8% blue. (the extra red bar at the top is 4.6%, which makes all the difference)

By: adipocere

adipocere — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:37:23 -0800

I'm fascinated that grey, purple, and brown are not colors used in the flags.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:42:23 -0800

Yeah; you'd think purple would be on at least some of them. Color of royalty and all. Besides, it seems like different countries would have completely different color symbology. I guess red for blood is pretty obvious, but still. Also interesting that the yellows are barely distinguishable.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:10:44 -0800

Hang on, that doesn't add up. It should be 41.538% red, 39.817% white (36.923% stripes, 2.894% stars) and 18.644% blue. That's for the standard 1.9 ratio. Ratios less than 1.475 have more white than red. God help me, I actually did the geometry for this

By: philfromhavelock

philfromhavelock — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:13:24 -0800

>It's neat to see all the different shade of red. I wonder how much debate goes into that. Sometimes it gets kinda tense. "It's a veritable chromatic coup d'etat"

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:24:41 -0800

cillit bang: Thank you for settling that argument.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:02:00 -0800

Red, white green blue yellow teal amber buff lilac crimson. yellow again. aqua cerulean robin's egg turqouise sky metafilter background blue. mediterranean periwinkle azure royal tinky-winky navy midnight saphire true

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:23:14 -0800

I like how the British dependencies are all obvious -- a big chunk of navy blue, a bit of red and white, and slivers of the several colors that make up their little crest. Also, is Seychelles the first example of Flag 2.0?

By: po

po — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:25:41 -0800

Whatever happened to just... lavender blue, dilly, dilly... dilly...? Silly.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:27:18 -0800

The relative popularity of green+red tells me that a good portion of the world is still using CGA.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:40:37 -0800

Beautiful and surprising as an overview graphic! Such an unexpected way to look at flags. I like this better than the originals, especially seeing them all together. A democracy of spectrum. The ones with thin little slices of color are pretty, turns out they're mostly Caribbean. Kind of curious the limited and somewhat uniform palette. No purple or pink.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:51:39 -0800

Ok, now can anyone compile a master pie chart showing the most popular flag colors worldwide (by area)?

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:59:19 -0800

Did you not scroll to the bottom Eideteker?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:24:22 -0800

Hah, no! I am the victim of whitespace, yet again. Thanks!

By: fuzzygerdes

fuzzygerdes — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:36:44 -0800

For certain values of fun I did Chicago.