Thanks for sharing. That is hilarious 
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And this exists largely to annoy the wildly overrated and terribly thin-skinned Anish Kapoor who has exclusive artistic rights to Vanta Black.
Stuart Semple’s site includes a range of other crazy pigments including the pinkest pink and the glowiest glowing stuff.
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If i recall, he only has exclusive rights to Vanta Black 1.0
i like Stuart’s work, but be careful signing up for his email list, because they are frequent and incessant.
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You could cover your laptop in black velvet for even more odd looks.
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My (layman’s) understanding is that super-black isn’t necessarily the best option if you are looking for solar heat: it absorbs light quite well; but its emissivity also approaches that of an ideal black body which means that it just pours IR back out even at quite modest temperatures.
“Selective surfaces” of varying degrees of exotic construction, with an emphasis on fiddling with the emissivity, are apparently the overall winners, even if they don’t absorb as much, by virtue of retaining more.
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The Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence has something available along those lines; albeit a members-only offering.
I haven’t bought any pigments from his site yet but I did download his free alternative to the Pantone digital swatchbooks once the company decided to move to a ridiculous and overpriced subscription model, so in my eyes he’s doing God’s work.
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But did you sniff it?
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Yep. When I worked for a solar thermal company that turned water into turbine-ready superheated steam [1] using mirrors and black pipes, a lot of science went into the paint. Black is the best colour for both absorbing and emitting radiant heat. They managed a formulation that was - by the standard of black paint - a decent heat absorber, but also a very low-quality heat emitter, so any heat absorbed tended to stay in the pipes instead of radiate away.
[1] 450 C / 840 F, with production measured in tons / hour.
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yep – that’s how i got ON his mailing list in the first place, haha
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Love black.
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Perhaps a nonslip sort of moisture-wicking mirror table in the floor and radiant heating or heat pumping or at least light areas on the walls, if only to whittle at the $4500 semi-recurring paint price or troubles donig a ceramic coat over the black if Semple even hazards that.
Oh yes, laminar flow purified air at such a rate that the towels don’t leave streaks on the surfaces (e’en if only the ceiling be panited so!) oof. Yes we chose to have a registered OR here in order to fund the finish…Mercy of Jitney, I think the registration goes. We just keep all the signed waivers to the effect ‘Hello darkness my Old Friend.’
Franko> frequent and incessant
Like your need for 4 paints, all brightest/most saturated, as opposed to how many people you wish to greet with the request for the same? (Without an invite from Pharrell and Weird Al in particular.)
Mnidysan33> whitest t-shirt
He got a light and vfx filter? And groomin’. And…a merch link that almost connects (with his particular merch store, but gives an error but then it offers broad merch strokes?) Safe crossin’s FD!
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Once you go Black 4.0, you never go back for pose arrow.
3M used to make Nextel spray paint that was about the blackest stuff you could get then. I used it inside optical equipment. They also made a white in the same line.
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I’m saying that the effect is in part from its slightly “furry” or suedey ultra-matte texture and touching it or allowing it to touch other things after drying compromises it
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YouTube channel DipYourCar got their hands on it:
I wish they’d mentioned what they diluted it with, and how, since that could have played a role in the final appearance… but it’s a fun watch anyway. (They do experiments like this fairly often; they also played around with Musou black, glow-in-the-dark pigment, and mood-ring powder. I’m not a car enthusiast, but there’s something about the way they play with colors that fascinates me.)
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