Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by." -- Henry Holcomb BennettEach sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag. 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.
[Flags analyzed here are Uganda, Ukraine, United Araba Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela and Vietnam.]
Next, he combined all the colors together. We see that white and red are the most dominate colors used in flags.
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Interestingly, the pie charts of the following countries - Libya, Monaco, Poland, Indonesia, Haiti (civil), Ukraine, and possibly the Czech republic - are circular versions of their national flags.
ReplyDeleteGiven that many nations have a flag which is a "banner of arms" -- perhaps these flags could be called "banners of pie-charts". Or perhaps "Kreisdiagrammenflagge".