The blackest black paint ever
The most interesting black product I've seen was a projector screen Sony showed at CES one year, around 2002 or so. The screen looked extremely dark in ordinary room light because it absorbed almost all light except the precise wavelength of the red green blue projection from a video projector. I don't know if part of the trick involved the polarization of the light source as well as the wavelength. It was quite amazing how vibrant the image looked under lighting that would have made any other front projection image look washed out. I believe the Sony screen never made it to market. It was supposedly very expensive to make, brittle (so the screen cannot roll up) and people hated the look of a big black screen on the wall (I guess they never considered some kind of cover or valance). |
Thanks for mentioning this new black erik. Hope they make progress. Black is NOT black. I worked for ten years in a huge printing company and when I wanted a trailer custom-matched to the black of my Goldwing, any body shop that said, "Oh, black is black" I just said goodbye and left. This stuff would have be great for my theater walls to absorb light reflected from the screen, if I want to repaint them. The four walls and ceiling are pure matte black but light from the screen still bounces off too much for me. |
@unsound I've seen examples of cars painted this way and it is scary, just like you mentioned. Since this black is tuned for visible light, not sure how well it does outside that spectrum. https://www.hotcars.com/vantablack-car-paint-facts/ |
