Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

Emaelivpeith Philippe Caquant:
> [A remark to another remark: flags haven't to be
> exactly of the same shape or size. "The most common
> proportions [for national flags] are 2:3 (this applies
> to more than half of all flags), about 20 per cent of
> flags having dimension of 1:2 and only 9 per cent 3:5
> (1). Two flags alone are square (2), and one is
> neither rectangular nor square (3)" (Flags & Coats of
> Arms, Ludvik Mucha & Stanislav Valasek, GRP Praha 1987
> - this has probably evolved since).
I was the one who suggested making the flags the same size. It's not
that I think there is the One True Ratio or anything like that. If we
all voted in favor of, say, a platypus-shaped flag, that'd be cool
with me. It's just that, for viewing all these images more easily,
it's nice if they all fit in the same table column width. The
originals range from 200-something to 600-something, so that made for
quite some size variation.


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