Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia (as of 26th May 2007) 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.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Flags by Colour
Via Dear Ada I found Flags by Colours by Shahee Ilyas. The page describes the work:
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That is so much fun.
I'll go back to clicking on color pie-charts now.
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