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Flag_of_the_United_States.svg (SVG file, nominally 1330 × 700 pixels, file size: 4 KB)


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Description

Flag of the United States.

Italiano: Bandiera degli Stati Uniti d'America.
Source

SVG implementation of U. S. Code: Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 1[1] (the United States Federal “Flag Law”).

Date

11 September 2005–5 April 2007, based on the above flag law as amended by Executive Order No. 10834 dated 21 August 1959.

Author

Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, Technion.

Permission
(Reusing this image)

see below


Image notes

  • The geometric specifications for the union jack and the sizes and positioning of the stars are given in an attachment to Executive Order 10834 of 21 August 1959, printed in 3 CFR, 1959–1963 Comp., p. 368.
  • The current size of the image (version as of 04:42, 5 April 2007), 1235 × 650 pixels, represents an aspect ratio of 1.9:1.0. (These dimensions were chosen to allow as much as possible of the geometric manipulations to be performed using integer quantities without the need for scaling.)
It is easy to put a border around this image:
[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|border|100px]]

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Image source

SVG source (version of 04:42, 5 April 2007):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="1235" height="650">
  <desc>United States Flag</desc>
  <defs>
    <polygon id="point"
      points="-0.1624598481164531,0 0,0.5 0.1624598481164531,0"
      transform="scale(0.0616)" fill="white"/>
      <!-- "0.162..." = (tangent of 18 deg.) / 2 -->
    <g id="star">
      <use xlink:href="#point" transform="rotate(-108)"/>
      <use xlink:href="#point" transform="rotate( -36)"/>
      <use xlink:href="#point" transform="rotate(  36)"/>
      <use xlink:href="#point" transform="rotate( 108)"/>
      <use xlink:href="#point" transform="rotate( 180)"/>
    </g>
    <g id="row5">
      <use xlink:href="#star" x="-0.252"/>
      <use xlink:href="#star" x="-0.126"/>
      <use xlink:href="#star"/>
      <use xlink:href="#star" x=" 0.126"/>
      <use xlink:href="#star" x=" 0.252"/>
    </g>
    <g id="row6">
      <use xlink:href="#row5" x="-0.063"/>
      <use xlink:href="#star" x=" 0.315"/>
    </g>
    <g id="rowx4">
      <use xlink:href="#row6"/>
      <use xlink:href="#row5" y="0.054"/>
      <use xlink:href="#row6" y="0.108"/>
      <use xlink:href="#row5" y="0.162"/>
    </g>
    <g id="union">
      <use xlink:href="#rowx4" y="-0.216"/>
      <use xlink:href="#rowx4"/>
      <use xlink:href="#row6" y="0.216"/>
    </g>
    <rect id="stripe" width="1235" height="50" fill="#bf0a30"/>
  </defs>
  <rect width="1235" height="650" fill="white"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="100"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="200"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="300"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="400"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="500"/>
  <use xlink:href="#stripe" y="600"/>
  <rect width="494" height="350" fill="#002868"/>
  <use xlink:href="#union" transform="translate(247,175) scale(650)"/>
</svg>

SHA1 message digest (version of 04:42, 5 April 2007):

SHA1(Flag_of_the_United_States.svg)= ee61650cf97263945cf12ae4a8d2c9e39597b31f

License

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

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Public domain This image is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

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File history

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Date/TimeUserDimensionsFile sizeComment
current20:05, 7 April 2008Dany30001,330×7004 KB (Reverted to version as of 23:02, 28 March 2007)
04:42, 5 April 2007Technion1,235×6502 KB (Proposed simplified version written from scratch, derived directly from http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sec_04_00000001----000-notes.html (should be geometrically identical))
23:02, 28 March 2007Indolences1,330×7004 KB (fixing doctype)
10:35, 26 April 2006Jacobolus1,330×7004 KB (rm unnecessary attributes I added in last version)
10:32, 26 April 2006Jacobolus1,330×7004 KB (wrap "reusable code" in <defs> tag as recommended by wc3)
07:54, 26 April 2006Jacobolus1,330×7004 KB (add metadata, some id's)
01:27, 26 April 2006Jacobolus380×20040 KB
19:01, 24 March 2006Dbenbenn1,330×7002 KB (Stars are now exact. Based on an idea of User:Pumbaa80.)
23:08, 28 January 2006Dbenbenn1,330×7002 KB (Previous version had a miscalculation--stars were shifted left by 0.02%, whoops! Also, this version now uses viewBox to have a reasonable default size.)
00:09, 29 November 2005Dbenbenn18,525×9,7503 KB (more precise version: stars are now accurate to 42 decimal places)
21:44, 3 October 2005Dbenbenn18,525×9,7502 KB (change red back to BF0A30, and completely rewrite SVG code, using Zscout's <use> tag idea, but with increased precision)
19:10, 3 October 2005Zscout37018,525×9,75010 KB (Made it into a 130 pixel hoist, as per request on my talk page.)
19:02, 3 October 2005Zscout370190×1009 KB (The cloning is done, but everyone is welcome to reduce the file size even more. :D)
10:06, 1 October 2005Dbenbenn570×30016 KB (change red back to BF0A30, according to cited references)
04:15, 27 September 2005Zscout370570×30016 KB (Made the flag 300x570, fixed the colors. I also cut the file size down by over half. I am going to reduce it more once I have time.)
02:28, 11 September 2005Dbenbenn247×13036 KB (change red to BF0A30, blue to 002868, according to w:Image talk:Us flag large.png)
02:25, 11 September 2005Dbenbenn247×13036 KB (from http://openclipart.org/clipart/signs_and_symbols/flags/america/united_states.svg, by Daniel McRae, PD)

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