updated 9/16: new BMW that you can't see in Ventablack

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I wonder if that makes it invisible to radar?
 
How expensive is that paint? Might be better to paint our ARs that color instead of taking them out boating. :D
 
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Very cool. Just from the description it isn’t obvious but the paint essentially turns whatever it is on into a completely featureless black hole (for lack of a better term.

So if you paint your AR with it, you wouldn’t be able to see any of the controls like the mag release or bolt release. If you did the bolt you wouldn’t be able to tell if the bolt was open or closed.

Until you got something dirty or wore down the paint.

Freaky but very cool.


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You need to see if you can find the article about this paint and its original inventor. Some crazy artist and had a beef with another artist and in the patent or something said everyone can buy this but X Artist. Then that other artist made another color and did the same thing. Essentially, a wierdo artist pissing match. But I liked their style. "FU", no, "FU" sort of thing. That's pretty awesome on that SUV. Annnnnnnnd probably pretty expensive.

Here it is being mentioned on Wikipedia:

Artistic use[edit]
Vantablack S-VIS, a sprayable paint that uses randomly-aligned carbon nanotubes and only has high absorption in the visible light band, has been exclusively licensed to Anish Kapoor's studio for artistic use.[16] This has caused outrage among some other artists, including Christian Furr and Stuart Semple.[17][18] In retaliation, Semple banned Kapoor from buying the strongest shade of pink that Semple had developed.[19][20] He later stated that the move was itself like performance art and that he did not anticipate the amount of attention it received.[21] In December 2016, Kapoor posted an Instagram post of his middle finger dipped in Semple's pink.[22] Semple then created another shade of paint made from crushed glass as a retort to Kapoor, and later barred Kapoor from buying other products of his, including his extremely strong shades of green and yellow paint as well as a paint sold as Black 2.0, which is nearly indistinguishable to Vantablack VBx, despite being acrylic. If one wanted to buy any of these paints, they would have to sign a contract stating that they were not Anish Kapoor and didn't intend to give the paint to Kapoor.[23][24]
 
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Immediately coated in dust...
 
So I can’t figure of if it’s hotter or cooler than others blacks in the sun. It absorbs 99.4% of light but dissipates it. So,???!?! Sounds like scratches will get expensive to fix to me:)
 
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If it doesn't reflect anything then all that light energy gets converted to heat. It's a very cool demonstration but I think the real application for this tech will not wind up being vehicle paint.
 
It could re-radiate the energy in IR. It says it is only nearly 100% absorptive in the visible light range. With lots of surface area (nearly fractal?) I suspect it is a very good IR black body radiator.

I wouldn't put it on a beautiful car, but would be perfect for an old beater!

Has anyone seen what it costs, anywhere?
 
When will Krylon have it in cans?
 
I saw something about a year ago on CNN10 at school about something like this (not sure if it's THIS or not)
But it was a paint that absorbed almost all light and made things just...black.
They were saying that it cost about the same as gold, so very expensive, but that's a pretty cool thing (the paint, not the price)
 
I don't see what all the fuss is about.
 
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