What's blacker than "black?" Vantablack!

No, I think it would look like teeth and eyes floating in a black void.

Did a thread years ago about an encounter on oak creek where I saw a cloak of this type of material, or as close to its discription which I fell short of explaining at the time or even years later. I will say that it seemed almost alive, verses the 3rd dimensional "colors" which we are familiar with. The military applications must have to do with a chameleon / cloaking type application.

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Satellites, coat your puppy with these panels and you've just made something already pretty hidden and hard to find that much more harder to find unless you KNOW where it is and how fast it's moving.

We have more orbital weapons than we can keep hidden.

They have the display fabric too, to create optical invisibility and / or camouflage.

It uses cameras on the fabric itself and projects the visuals on the fabric to create the appearance of nothing.

Vertically Aligned Carbon NanoTube Arrays (Vanta) are engineered in a lab and painstakingly deposited onto a substrate through a chemical vapor deposition process. The dense forest of tubes traps over 99.96 percent of visible light as well as ultraviolet and infrared radiation. The photons bounce around in the maze of nanotubes until they dissipate as thermal energy.

...Vantablack seems like an incredible resource for military applications, such as enhancing stealth aircraft or camouflaging soldiers. However, the nanotubes are so delicate that exposing them to touch, impact or even a gentle breeze would damage the material and likely ruin the illusion.

Vantablack is best suited to enclosed, protected environments like satellites and telescopes. If applied to the internal components of a telescope the material would reduce atmospheric distortion and light refraction from polished lenses, providing higher-definition images. Notably, Vantablack is an excellent coating for the visual systems within self-driving cars. Surrey NanoSystems’ Chief Technical Officer Ben Jensen sees an incredible opportunity for the product in the automated car market. “If you’re driving in low sunlight and it blinds the vision system, you come into an unsafe situation. Anything you can do with these technologies where you can protect and improve stray light suppression within the vision system is a real benefit,” noted Jensen during an interview with Tech Times.

innotechtoday.com - Vantablack The “Invisible” Material Helps Self-Driving Cars See.

The title is misleading. It is not already helping self driving cars but is envisioned for that use. Also, it not as fragile as they stated being "painstakingly deposited onto a substrate through a chemical vapor deposition process". CVD is not the only method if Vanta black is being sold in spray cans!

Anyway, this curiosity has real world applications!

Ugly people could paint their face with it.
Then you couldn't tell they were ugly.

In addition to being known for his over-sized installations (including the giant reflective Cloud Gate “bean” in Chicago), Kapoor made headlines in 2016 when he secured the exclusive artistic rights to a physics-defying material called Vantablack. Developed by a British company called Surrey NanoSystems, the material is able to trap photons in-between lab-grown carbon nanotubes, which bounce around until they’re eventually absorbed. Just a scant 0.035 percent of visible light is reflected by an object covered in Vantablack, making it impossible to see any curves or contours—or to accurately gauge the depth of a hole if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

Descent Into Limbo debuted years before Vantablack was announced to the public, and was instead created using a dark paint that produces the same depthless, black hole effect. For at least one hapless art lover, it seems that was enough.

Gizmodo.com - Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor.

Well, it has no depth of perception so you cannot tell if it is concave or convex... or an eight foot hole! And to top it all off, the hole was not even painted with real Vantablack!

Once again proving, the (w)hole is more than the some of its parts!!

I saw this in a video a few months ago. Amazing stuff. Alien tech, I bet.

Just imagine the possibility of dressing up as not just almost invisible, but fully invisible.

Some one could beat up anyone and not be seen.

We can be a full shadow like Noob Saibot!!