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Shahee Ilyas has lots of fun and interesting projects on his site. One I found particularly interesting was a breakdown of all the flag colors in the world and how much each color is used in each flag.
With his permission here they are:
Each sector the pie-chart is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag
Click on an Image to Reveal the Country Flag
All Flag Colors Combined

Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) are analyzed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colors on each of them. That is then translated on to a piechart using another python script. The proportions of colors on all unique flags are used to finally generate a piechart of proportions of colors for all the flags combined. (note: colors making up less than 1% may not appear)
Originaly Created By Shahee Ilyas 2007 | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Special thanks to Ayesh. All original flags are from Wikipedia contributors. Some information is obtained from other public domain sources such as The World Factbook database.
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bijoulove…28 May, 2007
this looks ver interesting - can't wait to read it after a proper nap - exhausting day in the sunshine!
 
retsof28 May, 2007
Awww. They're in alphabetical order. I may get to see USA tomorrow.
 
bijoulove…29 May, 2007
great article :)
the clickable icons are a nice touch! - like a whole set of flashcards to test our knowledge of world flags
 
bijoulove…29 May, 2007
where are all these random comments coming from?
 
COLOURlov…29 May, 2007
Those are linkbacks from other blogs that are linking to this post on COLOURlovers. You can click the bold part to view the blog entry that is mentioning this post.
 
bijoulove…29 May, 2007
ah, sorry, just saw some random excerpt about harry potter master and slave and thought it was a spammer... :o
 
COLOURlov…29 May, 2007
Oh... well actually that one was spam... and is now off to spamland.
 
despise29 May, 2007
this would have come in handy for me the other day! at my friends college graduation there were flags from quite a few countries lining the hill they walked down and my friends brother and I were trying to name them all. See I knew colourlovers would come in handy for something other than just strictly colors. thanks for making this!
 
koavf30 May, 2007
Why isn't Western Sahara on here?
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