Scientist holding a basketball covered with Vantablack, the world‘s blackest substance

Amish kapoor is the one who got the rights for vantablack and made that ridiculous “Bean” installation that everyone makes fun of. Stuart semple is the one who did a better one out of spite and bans amish from getting his stuff
 "After seven years in the making, it’s here. Black 4.0 is without a doubt the blackest black paint in the known universe. Born out of Stuart Semple’s obsession to share utterly unique art materials that elevate your art, here is a material that has never seen before by the human eye.

When Stuart’s obsession came into contact with Anish Kapoor not letting people have Vantablack it led him down a black hole that has resulted in the release of Black 4.0."Anish Kapoor has the artistic license for Vantablack. He's known for two things primarily; the Bean/Cloud Gate in Chicago and being a massive fucking prick.

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Black 2.0/3.0/4.0 is the easily accessible, actually usable (vantablack is very intensive to actually use and apply to most things) extremely black matte paint made by Stuart Semple. Notably, it is available for anyone to purchase.

EXCEPT ANISH KAPOOR. (Or anyone associated with Anish Kapoor)

Stuart Semple has done the same effort with other colors; notably making copies of Tiffany Blue (TIFF Blue), International Klein Blue (Incredibly Kleinish Blue) and Barbie Pink (Pinkie); all colors patented for use, as well as the Adobe Plugin Freetone, which mimics the Pantone color palette/number codes.

Overall extremely based dude.For folks who take this video at face value, head up Stuart Semple is a fraudster and narcissist who profited from the notariety he gained from grossly misrepresenting the Vanta Black situation. Vanta Black isn't just a color, it was a toxic substance with expensively engineered carbon nanotubes. Anish Kapoor buying the rights didn't keep it away from other artists, the company that made it wanted to keep it exclusively controlled and was only willing to deal with a single artist they felt they could trust with their productVantablack is highly toxic and very expensive, plus bot publicly available. The rights tonit were also bought by Anish Kapoor, everything that's wrong with the art world in a person. Also who came up with "cloud gate" also known as The Bean (because calling it that pisses him off.)

In response, Stuart Semple, a mad artist of immense skill created Black 2.0, then refined it to Black 3.0 which is not only non toxic, you can buy it from his website for a mere $30.

Vantablack absorbs slightly more light, but it's less than a percent off. Black 3.0 absorbs 99% while Vantablack can absorb up to 99.956% which is not a different the human eye can pick up