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kelldricked t1_j2d8olx wrote

Reply to comment by USAIsAUcountry in TIL The darkest color in the world doesn't have a name, it has the ability to absorb 99.995% of light and has been used to cover a diamond worth 2 million dollars for an "artistic project" by mic3ttaa

You probaly notice it straight away because suddenly there is something that does reflect light, or nothing which blocks it anymore.

Lets say you have a house on a remote hill with a balcony filled with torches and other lights. As you stand ontop of the balcony you will see loads of stuff barely because everything reflects light. You will see the edges of the forrest. You might not see it well, but you will percieve something.

If we then put a big screen (lets say 2 meters by 2 meters) with this collor somewhere in the edge of the forrest you will suddenly see a square of nothing. It will be visually diffrent because of the contrast. You cant see it, but because you can see the rest barely you still percieve it as something being there.

If we remove the screen then you suddenly would notice the square of nothingness disseapering.

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DltaDFoxtrot t1_j2dbph1 wrote

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

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RichGrinchlea t1_j2dwsld wrote

I'm going for the save here - I think he'd trying to say that you would infer that something was there by the fact that absolutely nothing is there - a null space. Like a black hole you can't see it but infer it's existence by knowing something should be there, even if it's the stars behind it.

This painted diamond I think would be obvious as it would be a big black nothingness in the middle of the room. It's black not invisible.

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Von_Cheesebiscuit t1_j2ebse4 wrote

Or, in a hell of a lot less words: You can see the very dark black thing. You would be able to notice if you couldn't see the very dark black thing.

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[deleted] t1_j2fd4it wrote

You will see a black screen, it wouldn’t be nothing, it isn’t invisible. What this paint does is prevent you from perceiving the shape of the object. So from afar all you can see is the 2m x 2m frontal area, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between just a screen from any other shape.

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