Always reminds me of that ship at the The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Would be interesting to see car painted with this sort of paint. Or sufficiently large object. Not that it wouldn't get too hot to be usable...
Would be interesting to see car painted with this sort of paint. Or sufficiently large object. Not that it wouldn't get too hot to be usable...
And also from some angles it might totally mess up depth perception, kind of like dazzle camouflage, so other drivers might not be able to avoid it as well as they could avoid a car painted in a color that gave better depth cues.
Maybe in a hypothetical future where you don't need human beings to be able to see and predict cars' position with their eyes? :-)
> This show car is destined to remain a one-off because of the enormous difficulty involved in making Vantablack paint suitably durable for everyday automotive use. The car paint needed for the world’s blackest black would also be extremely expensive, not to mention questionable in terms of road safety due to its level on the absorption spectrum.
It would also probably melt the interior in summer.
It wouldn't actually, unless its infra-red emissivity was much lower than its visible light behavior. (which is why bright metallic surface become so hot in the sun: they absorb little visible light radiation but emit even less infra-red)
I wonder, what it would look like after the first time it got dirty and how hard it would be to clean?
Would a clear coat over the top negate the effect enough that it wouldn't be worth it?
That's, by the way, how Ventablack and Black 4.0 are different. Black 4.0 is really black when looked straight on, but looked at an angle, it will start reflecting light (Fresnel effect), it is apparent on the submitted picture as you can clearly see the paintbrush marks. Ventablack is supposed to be much blacker at grazing angles. That's without a clear coat of course.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dipyourcar.com/video/729847300687400...