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by icsllaf 2452 days ago
Would the human eye see the difference between this and Vantablack? Even though it's ten times darker I feel like the returns would get smaller and smaller.

Also, what would 100% light absorption look like?

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In other words, you have to crank up the light source to be 10x brighter to make it reflect as much as vantablack does.

I think the returns are always there when the improvements are on a log scale like that, assuming you care about darkness in the first place.

In the right environment - the absence of anything. Like a piece was cutout of your vision. Which, to be honest, this resembles as well.
Shine a very powerful laser on it, and yes, the human eye will be able to tell the difference
>Also, what would 100% light absorption look like?

A hole.