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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

BP137 Dots equal in number to the sides of the closed region vs. dots unequal in number to the sides of the closed region.
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP132 BP133 BP134 BP135 BP136  *  BP138 BP139 BP140 BP141 BP142

KEYWORD

left-null, traditional

CONCEPT same_number (info | search),
same (info | search)

AUTHOR

Douglas R. Hofstadter

BP211 More black than white vs. more white than black.
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CROSSREFS

See BP196 for a version of this Problem restricted to uniform textures.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP206 BP207 BP208 BP209 BP210  *  BP212 BP213 BP214 BP215 BP216

KEYWORD

easy, nice, spectrum, dual, blackwhite, unstable, right-null, perfect, pixelperfect, traditional, continuous, viceversa, bordercontent

CONCEPT outlined_filled (info | search),
size (info | search),
texture (info | search)

WORLD

bmp [smaller | same | bigger]
zoom in left | zoom in right

AUTHOR

Giuseppe Insana

BP246 Equal numbers of straight lines and continuous curves vs. unequal numbers of straight lines and continuous curves.
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP241 BP242 BP243 BP244 BP245  *  BP247 BP248 BP249 BP250 BP251

KEYWORD

traditional

CONCEPT curved_straight (info | search),
number (info | search)

AUTHOR

Carla Rispoli

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

BP525 Some zoomed-in (cropped) version of an image of a hollow circle vs. not so.
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP520 BP521 BP522 BP523 BP524  *  BP526 BP527 BP528 BP529 BP530

KEYWORD

stretch, boundingbox, left-null, traditional, left-couldbe

CONCEPT circle (info | search)

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP538 Shown is a box of this Bongard Problem (BP538) vs. not so.
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CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP533 BP534 BP535 BP536 BP537  *  BP539 BP540 BP541 BP542 BP543

KEYWORD

less, notso, left-finite, finished, invalid, experimental, funny

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

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP544 Everything vs. nothing.

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BP1
BP544
BP1073

dog

nothing

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COMMENTS

All ideas and things, with no limits.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP539 BP540 BP541 BP542 BP543  *  BP545 BP546 BP547 BP548 BP549

KEYWORD

notso, meta (see left/right), links, world, left-self, right-finite, right-full, left-null, left-it, feedback, experimental, funny

CONCEPT existence (info | search)

WORLD

everything [smaller | same]
zoom in left (everything) | zoom in right (nothing)

AUTHOR

Aaron David Fairbanks

BP941 JPEG image vs. PNG image.
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COMMENTS

Evidently this solution is stretching the idea of what makes images "different". Each corresponding pair of panels would be parsed as identical in any other case. It is worth noting that if you view this Problem on a template, the solution no longer applies at all.

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP936 BP937 BP938 BP939 BP940  *  BP942 BP943 BP944 BP945 BP946

KEYWORD

less, precise, dual, antihuman, contributepairs, invalid, experimental, funny

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

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