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<blockquote data-quote="Weather Man" data-source="post: 16977090" data-attributes="member: 137766"><p>The OEM's are playing around with blacker black concepts.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fastcompany.com/90396527/the-first-car-painted-with-the-worlds-blackest-black-is-deeply-unsettling[/URL]</p><p></p><p>BY <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/mark-wilson" target="_blank">MARK WILSON</a>3 MINUTE READ</p><p>It’s hard to describe Vantablack, the world’s darkest black pigment, without seeing it for yourself.</p><p></p><p></p><p>First developed for use in light-sensitive aerospace components (and <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90300113/move-over-vantablack-you-can-now-buy-the-worlds-blackest-black-paint" target="_blank">infamously</a> licensed for artistic use solely <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90160002/the-worlds-blackest-black-makes-its-debut-on-a-building" target="_blank">by sculptor Anish Kapoor</a>), the pigment uses tiny carbon nanotubes to absorb up to 99.965% of light striking its surface. At <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90378288/exclusive-a-first-look-inside-googles-top-secret-design-lab" target="_blank">Google’s top secret materials lab</a>, I recently gazed upon a sample of Vantablack in real life for the first time. It almost broke my brain. It has no reflection, no contours. It’s like part of the world has been Photoshopped away. Stare at it long enough, and it feels like your soul is being sucked out of your eyeballs.</p><p></p><p>It’s a frightening idea, to imagine seeing a Vantablack car on the road. BMW used a more reflective version of the paint, which bounces back a more generous 1% of visible light, for this application. Yet even with a slightly reflective surface, a Vatablack car in your rearview mirror would probably look something like a Looney Tunes tunnel painted on in the middle of the street. Is that an object or a void?</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2019/08/3-bmw-vantablack_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[Photo: BMW]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weather Man, post: 16977090, member: 137766"] The OEM's are playing around with blacker black concepts. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fastcompany.com/90396527/the-first-car-painted-with-the-worlds-blackest-black-is-deeply-unsettling[/URL] BY [URL='https://www.fastcompany.com/user/mark-wilson']MARK WILSON[/URL]3 MINUTE READ It’s hard to describe Vantablack, the world’s darkest black pigment, without seeing it for yourself. First developed for use in light-sensitive aerospace components (and [URL='https://www.fastcompany.com/90300113/move-over-vantablack-you-can-now-buy-the-worlds-blackest-black-paint']infamously[/URL] licensed for artistic use solely [URL='https://www.fastcompany.com/90160002/the-worlds-blackest-black-makes-its-debut-on-a-building']by sculptor Anish Kapoor[/URL]), the pigment uses tiny carbon nanotubes to absorb up to 99.965% of light striking its surface. At [URL='https://www.fastcompany.com/90378288/exclusive-a-first-look-inside-googles-top-secret-design-lab']Google’s top secret materials lab[/URL], I recently gazed upon a sample of Vantablack in real life for the first time. It almost broke my brain. It has no reflection, no contours. It’s like part of the world has been Photoshopped away. Stare at it long enough, and it feels like your soul is being sucked out of your eyeballs. It’s a frightening idea, to imagine seeing a Vantablack car on the road. BMW used a more reflective version of the paint, which bounces back a more generous 1% of visible light, for this application. Yet even with a slightly reflective surface, a Vatablack car in your rearview mirror would probably look something like a Looney Tunes tunnel painted on in the middle of the street. Is that an object or a void? [IMG]https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2019/08/3-bmw-vantablack_.jpg[/IMG][Photo: BMW] [/QUOTE]
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