Flags

[Astraios]

Sssh! Don't tell the tourists that!!

They don't come anywhere else anyway. xD

[Jar Jar Binks]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7222/6940 ... 865b_b.jpg

what did I just say about saving flags as .jpgs

[Vuvuzela]

Here's the flag for Kasharlam. The black represents the night, the blue represents the morning rising above it, conquering it. The white square represents the region of the far north, and the blue circle represents how Kasharlam is central to that region.

[Purple Wyrm]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7222/6940 ... 865b_b.jpg

what did I just say about saving flags as .jpgs

And what did I say about hosting the image on Flickr which forces you to use jpgs?

[Jar Jar Binks]

don't do that

[Purple Wyrm]

don't do that

...point

[Pole, the]

humèh ri state flag


capital city flag






regional flags

[Jipí]

Sierpiński triangles. Seriously?

[clawgrip]

Maybe they're big into geometry...or mountains.

[Lyra]

Maybe a tad.... identical?
Flags bare great cultural reference and are meant to differentiate the things they are representing from the others, be they regions, regiments, houses, etc.
But, of course, t'is your con world.

~Lyra

[the duke of nuke]

Remember, too, that one highly desirable attribute of a flag is being easy to draw. Those fractals are not easy to draw... at any rate, not quick to draw.

[Aurora Rossa]

Maybe a tad.... identical?
Flags bare great cultural reference and are meant to differentiate the things they are representing from the others, be they regions, regiments, houses, etc.
But, of course, t'is your con world.

It reminds me somewhat of the way most Scandinavian or otherwise northern European countries have the Nordic cross in their flags, just with different colors. When you take all the regional and subnational flags into account, you have dozens of flags all using the same shape. Although the duke of nuke makes makes the astute point that flags should contain simple and easily drawn iconography. The cross shape succeeds here much better than the fractal triangle one.

[Jipí]

Yes, but the color differences there aren't as subtle, and the cross isn't fractal either. The Scandinavian flags are perfect examples for easily drawable flags.

[Pole, the]

Then you have flags like Cyprus, Albania, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Bhutan...

I was also inspired by the mon geometric shapes on Japan municipality flags, esp. this one.

[Qwynegold]

I like the tree.

Flag of Gorat Sûlbarn Hì (Hì): Hì is regarded as the second city of the Konsâtèum and displays its colours on its flag. The city's nickname is written across the flag, and a tranázár figure was added to the fly after the city was attacked by the creatures in 1975.

What? The city was attacked by dinosaurs so they put one on the flag to honour them. It makes no sense.

[sirred]

regional flags

Must be a bitch if there's a civil war and you're color-blind and trying to find friendlies.

[Aurora Rossa]

What? The city was attacked by dinosaurs so they put one on the flag to honour them. It makes no sense.

Perhaps they are showing deference to the dinosaurs, deliberately honoring them in the hopes that they will not attack their city again.

[Lyra]

Or a show of defiance and valaince:

"Yo, dawg, we got attacked by DINOS, man! DINOS! But we still here... we still chillin'..."

~Lyra

[Purple Wyrm]

Flag of Gorat Sûlbarn Hì (Hì): Hì is regarded as the second city of the Konsâtèum and displays its colours on its flag. The city's nickname is written across the flag, and a tranázár figure was added to the fly after the city was attacked by the creatures in 1975.

What? The city was attacked by dinosaurs so they put one on the flag to honour them. It makes no sense.

The attack was pretty ineffective - only 14 of the things turned up and were quickly dispatched. It quickly became a celebrated incident in the city's history, and the creatures have become a kind of city-mascot, hence the eventual placement on the flag.

I can't recall a specific example off the top of my head, but there are plenty of real places here on Earth where cities have vicious animals on their heraldry, because some king or hero or someone important killed one locally.

"Yo, dawg, we got attacked by DINOS, man! DINOS! But we still here... we still chillin'..."

Yeah, and there's a bit of that too

[clawgrip]

Maybe the ruins of the dinosaur attack are the main tourist draw in Hì, so they put it on the flag to remind the tourists of the dino ruins. Please come see our dino ruins!

[Purple Wyrm]

Maybe the ruins of the dinosaur attack are the main tourist draw in Hì, so they put it on the flag to remind the tourists of the dino ruins. Please come see our dino ruins!

Certainly the three skeletons in the city museum are one of the city's major tourist draws.

I've actually got the full account of the attack written up somewhere. I'll have to track it down and post it.

[Chuma]

Remember, too, that one highly desirable attribute of a flag is being easy to draw. Those fractals are not easy to draw... at any rate, not quick to draw.

Yeah - if you think of them as the actual idealised fractals, they would take infinite time to draw. And be 100% white.

And the Kasharlam flag, to be honest, it's not very inviting. It just looks cold.

[Qwynegold]

What? The city was attacked by dinosaurs so they put one on the flag to honour them. It makes no sense.

The attack was pretty ineffective - only 14 of the things turned up and were quickly dispatched. It quickly became a celebrated incident in the city's history, and the creatures have become a kind of city-mascot, hence the eventual placement on the flag.[/quote]
OK. lol

I can't recall a specific example off the top of my head, but there are plenty of real places here on Earth where cities have vicious animals on their heraldry, because some king or hero or someone important killed one locally.

Aha. I was thinking it was akin to Aceh putting a wave on their flag for celebrating the 2004 tsunami.

[Jar Jar Binks]

Maybe a tad.... identical?
Flags bare great cultural reference and are meant to differentiate the things they are representing from the others, be they regions, regiments, houses, etc.
But, of course, t'is your con world.

~Lyra

wiphala of qulla suyu


wiphala of kunti suyu


wiphala of chinchay suyu


wiphala of anti suyu

[Lyra]

wiphala of kunti suyu


wiphala of chinchay suyu


wiphala of anti suyu

Poor, poor, users of those flags

~Lyra