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Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by using thinner threads or thread count?

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I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn’t been used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.

I think you pointed out very well why it hasn't been used more: lack of durability. Either it has to be some kind of plastic foil, in which case it has to be thin enough to fly in the wind the same way as a traditional flag does, so it will degrade very quickly when exposed to the elements. Or the silk organza suggested on the page, but if it's thin enough to be (almost) transparent I'm not convinced that it would fare much better.

So, nice idea, but completely impractical, which makes it a gimmick.

I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not perfectly transparent so you can still see it wave in the wind and make out it's rectangular shape.

I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.

>> I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.

Finally, an application for Apple‘s Liquid Glass UI

Seems unfair to associate anything good with that abomination.

Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before liquid glass.

Also this flag has square corners.

The website mentions silk organza at https://1worldflag.com/flag/. That's where my mind went initially, some kind of sheer silk fabric. I don't know how durable it would be in the elements though.

That would be the first flag that isn't vegan, which.. doesn't look very cool

I'm sure there have been plenty of flags that haven't been vegan.

You could make any flag out of non-vegan materials, sure. But that this flag was designed with the basis of cruelty (silk) makes it also conceptually non-vegan.

What a great way to unite the world in a practice of cruelty to its inhabitants

- 1worldforhumansonlyflag - 1worldindifferenttosufferingflag

The whole idea falls flat on its face because of this for me.

Not great for t-shirts

On the contrary, T-shirts of it will be very effective at calling attention to the flag.

It's a novel and fun idea! I also wonder how it would be represented correctly as a digital image, could be as an actual png or maybe the white/grey checker pattern from PhotoShop? Realistically probably just with a white background

glitter and foil will blow you away

The microplastics inherent in synthetics is the point.

Good one ;) and a flag should never be wet, so cover it in Teflon.

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