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A Few Things You Should Know About the "Darkest Material Ever Made"
Is 'organic' an American word for 'the opposite of artificial'? Otherwise I would think of azurite and malachite as mineral sources. Nanotubes made of carbon even sounds more 'organic'.
Perhaps Spinal Tap needs a new album cover.
Please get your facts straight, I prepared the samples above for NASA. It is in fact NASA Black which I developed for them for space flight instrumentation years before Vantablack. I am now marketing a similar formulation called piBlack for aerospace and commercial applications and yes; I am not making it exclusive to one artist.
I'd be less annoyed by this if his application of the material was less mediocre. You could do so much cool art with it wrapped around 3D surfaces to make them look 2D, but he decides to leave it flat?
It isn't a flat, 2D rectangle. It is a rectangular opening into a larger void cut out of the rock.
I have not seen the sculpture shown at the head of this article in person, but I been lucky enough to have seen a few others and they are compelling peices of art.
Looking into those blacknesses can be quite chilling or awe-inspiring.
Agree! And why glorify a black rectangle?! It's the oldest trick around! Out of ideas?
Extremely light absorptive coatings have been around for a long time. While there are differences between them in scientific applications, the difference between 99% and 99.5% absorption isn't perceptible to humans. See for example:
Oh man, this is pretty neat...
Does the structural integrity of Vantablack include resistance to flaking off by contact? How resistant is it to heat? I imagine Vantablack would make a great solar receiver material, but I imagine if you heated carbon to high enough temperatures in the presence of air, it would burst into flames.
First, it must be said that Vantablack isn't a color, it's a product offering made by a CVD carbon nanotube synthesis / R&D company. The color of Vantablack is simply black, black is a color, nobody owns the exclusive rights to use black.
In today's age, with all these posts and comments, his attempt to have his name carved in History; as the master of Vantablack; the most creative artist in the world; who saved the world of boredom by providing the witty uses of black; will be ridiculized. He'll be remembered as greedy SOB. No one cares if he paints millions of Malevitch squares on rocks
As long as a color can offer technical advantages, it shouldn't be able to gain exclusive rights to it only for perception porpoises, especially if you are not the one to have designed the pigment or even just the color itself.
Yves Klein did something similar with a particular blue color in the 1960s. I believe it also required a particular texture, not just a pigment. Yawn.
Colour is a perception. A material is a perception materialised. Can perceptions be patented?
Well, yeah, but I think that's better exemplified in more simple things. For example, figure ground depth perception illusions.