Web application 'Hand-painted national flag search' review that allows you to quickly look up the country name just by drawing the national flag



When watching sports such as the Olympics, you will often see a wide variety of 'national flags', but it is easy to ask, 'Oh, this national flag ... which country?' 'Flag search by sketch' released by

Yusuke Endoh is a web application that allows you to easily search for a country name simply by drawing a picture of the national flag compatible with both PCs and smartphones.




So, let's actually use the flag search by hand. When you access the official page , you will see a screen like this.



The part of the graph paper that says 'Touch here' is where the national flag is drawn. In the lower panel, you can change the color and adjust the line thickness.



On the national flag drawn on this paint part ...



A mechanism in which matching country names are displayed.



'Color' is important when searching. For example, let's search for the flag of Tunisia, where Ahmed Hafnaui won the gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle swimming at the Tokyo Olympics. Below is the actual flag of Tunisia.



If you draw only the characteristic crescent moon and stars in the Tunisian flag ...



Tunisia does not appear as a candidate.



However, if you increase the area where the colors match by matching the background color as shown below, at the stage where the white outline is added as shown below ...



Tunisia will appear as a candidate.



In this flag search by sketch, only the countries included in the country code ISO 3166-1 are displayed, and the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991, is not included.

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