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It's possible to have undefined correlation -- what if one of the variables has zero standard deviation?

Consider for example

x   1   1   1   1 
y   0   2   3   5   

That said all those plots in your question have defined correlation... each of them is 0. Indeed, here's a new version of that plot, with sample correlations (to the printed accuracy):

Plot of 5 different patterns - symmetric quartic, quadratic, back-to-back quadratics, points scattered around a ring, four "splotches" like dots representing 4 on a die

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