Vanta black not only absorbs soo much light, the coating also super-repels water, allowing a disc of aluminum to float BELOW the surface of water. It's more than just a surface tension thing. It's repelling the water molecules away.
YouTube's compression reduces the image quality quite a bit. Details are lost. Details are most certainly not gained.
Vantablack is supposed to absorb so much light that there should be no details visible. An area of vantablack should appear flat and featureless.
I watched this a week ago:
See 1:13, the attached image if that works... no image.
There are features visible in the darkness. I can see the left eye and brow ridge. There should be no light reflecting off the object in this promotional image, unless the lights used in the photo shoot are so intense that everything else in the image is blown out and pure white.
I'm positive I've seen something like this YEARS back... Maybe around 10 or more. It was on the local news, and did the same thing. Seeing it on T.V. made me think of some kind of black velvet (like, it'd be soft to the touch)... Or you could describe it as looking like - when something is charred from black smoke.
The main thing I recall is that they said it didn't reflect any light. Then again, this might be more advanced than whatever it was I seen back then.
> I'm positive I've seen something like this YEARS back... Maybe around 10 or more. It > was on the local news, and did the same thing. Seeing it on T.V. made me think of > some kind of black velvet (like, it's be soft to the touch)... Or you could describe > it as looking like - when something is charred from black smoke. > > The main thing I recall is that they said it didn't reflect any light. Then again, > this might be more advanced than whatever it was I seen back then.
They claim this stuff is less reflective than the other stuff that isn't reflective. See the SciShow video I embedded.
> Vanta black not only absorbs soo much light, the coating also super-repels water, > allowing a disc of aluminum to float BELOW the surface of water. It's more than just > a surface tension thing. It's repelling the water molecules away.
Now if they could make a real live black man out of that stuff. That would be spooky. All the black people would run from it.
> Now if they could make a real live black man out of that stuff. That would be spooky. > All the black people would run from it. > > I would run from it too.
Hell, even Mexicans would run from it.
No. This would be like the shadow people that appear when you experience sleep paralysis. But, they'd need softly glowing eyes. Like burning embers, or windows into hell.
> > Now if they could make a real live black man out of that stuff. That would be > spooky. > > All the black people would run from it. > > > > I would run from it too. > > > Hell, even Mexicans would run from it. > > > No. This would be like the shadow people that appear when you experience sleep > paralysis. But, they'd need softly glowing eyes. Like burning embers, or windows into > hell.
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