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BP1 Empty image vs. non-empty image.
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COMMENTS

The first Bongard Problem.

All examples in this Bongard Problem are line drawings (one or more connected figures made up of curved and non-curved lines).

REFERENCE

M. M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition, Spartan Books, 1970, p. 214.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
  *  BP2 BP3 BP4 BP5 BP6

EXAMPLE

A circle fits on the right because it is not nothing.

KEYWORD

easy, nice, precise, allsorted, unstable, world, left-narrow, left-finite, left-full, left-null, perfect, pixelperfect, finished, traditional, stableworld, deformstable, bongard

CONCEPT empty (info | search),
existence (info | search),
zero (info | search)

WORLD

zoom in left (blank_image) | zoom in right (curves_drawing)

AUTHOR

Mikhail M. Bongard

BP364 Two clearly separable groups vs. not so.
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COMMENTS

This BP (when interpreted as any image) will fit as a left example for itself.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP359 BP360 BP361 BP362 BP363  *  BP365 BP366 BP367 BP368 BP369

KEYWORD

nice, fuzzy, right-null, traditional, miniworlds

CONCEPT feature_cluster (info | search),
cluster (info | search)

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP374 Simple object vs. complex object.
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COMMENTS

People consistently get the answer to this, but many people think they haven't found the actual answer yet even though they have. - Aaron David Fairbanks, Aug 16 2020

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP369 BP370 BP371 BP372 BP373  *  BP375 BP376 BP377 BP378 BP379

KEYWORD

easy, nice, traditional

CONCEPT simplicity (info | search)

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP533 Contains smaller copy of itself vs. doesn't.
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COMMENTS

A smaller copy of EX6409 (the black area) can be located within itself, but some of the white space inside it is not retained in this smaller copy.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP528 BP529 BP530 BP531 BP532  *  BP534 BP535 BP536 BP537 BP538

KEYWORD

nice, perfect, infinitedetail, contributepairs

CONCEPT fractal (info | search),
recursion (info | search),
self-reference (info | search)

WORLD

connected_built_from_self_tile_fractals [smaller | same | bigger]

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP953 Image of this Bongard Problem vs. empty image.
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COMMENTS

"Image of Bongard Problem with solution X vs. empty image" where X is the phrase in quotes.

CROSSREFS

See BP959, BP902.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP948 BP949 BP950 BP951 BP952  *  BP954 BP955 BP956 BP957 BP958

KEYWORD

nice, precise, meta (see left/right), miniproblems, overriddensolution, right-full, right-null, perfect, infinitedetail, experimental, funny

CONCEPT fractal (info | search),
recursion (info | search),
self-reference (info | search)

WORLD

zoom in left (bp953_image) | zoom in right (blank_image)

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

BP1209 Empty square present vs. no square present.
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CROSSREFS

Nearly identical to BP1221, which is the same except non-empty squares are allowed.

See BP24 for "circle present vs. not".

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1204 BP1205 BP1206 BP1207 BP1208  *  BP1210 BP1211 BP1212 BP1213 BP1214

KEYWORD

stub, left-narrow, traditional

CONCEPT empty (info | search),
existence (info | search),
square (info | search)

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

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