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  Exactly
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  I think the idea is that it should be possible to make by hand with limited art skill >
  
  Canada >
  
  Well r/place was a perfect case study for that >
  
  A maple leaf is not easy to draw lol
  I bet most Canadians growing up had the jankiest leaves on their flags, because I can sure tell you my class did lol >
  
  Try the Welsh flag >
  
  Flags like that might not be easy to draw, but they are easy as hell to describe. Which im guessing was important for medieval societies when you didn't have pictures available for everyone. "If you see a red dragon on a white and green field, you're safe", something like that. >
  
  Most countries are too old to have had that as an option when their flags were created. Also the colors and symbols all represent something. What would a gradient represent? >
  
  The slope of a function in one or multiple dimensions >
  
  Hence why no-one's opted to use it. >
  
  Yet. 
  No one has opted to represent the slope of a function yet. >
  
  Yeah where derivative flag >
  
  Goes to show not all shower thoughts are smart ones.
  OP thinking flag designers had access to photoshop in the 1600's smh >
  
  You can make a gradient with 1600s technology >
  
  Ya but can you make a gradient >
  
  Betsy Ross would have had a hell of a time sewing together a gradient flag out of solid colored pieces of cloth. >
  
  There is a reason why many world currencies have color gradients, it is difficult to recreate over and over. >
  
  
  difficult to recreate over and over 
  
  🤔 you mean like what you'd want for currency security, but the opposite of what you'd want for the icon of the country... Makes sense