{"id":4649,"date":"2018-04-01T04:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:20:44","slug":"not-april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/not-april-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Not April Fool&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/ray-tracing-at-gdc\/\">a post last week<\/a> that I expected interest in ray-tracing to increase. So, there actually does appear to have been an uptick in Google searches on the term &#8220;ray-tracing,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&amp;q=ray%20tracing\">looking at Google Trends<\/a>. The last time there was as much interest was March 2010 (though other months in between have come close).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trend.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a funny area to explore: South Korea seems the most interested, by far. Under &#8220;Related topics&#8221; is &#8220;NVIDIA &#8211; Company,&#8221; which is not surprising. What&#8217;s funny is that if you <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?q=%2Fm%2F09rh_&amp;date=all\">click that topic<\/a>, you find that NVIDIA is of strongest interest in Romania, followed by Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, then Russia. I assumed the explanation is &#8220;Bitcoin,&#8221; but that&#8217;s not quite right. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/nvidia-ceo-maintains-that-cryptocurrency-mining-is-not-their-business\/\">According to NVIDIA&#8217;s CEO<\/a>, it&#8217;s actually Ethereum mining, as Bitcoins are most profitably mined by custom ASICs at this point.\u00a0Such a\u00a0world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in a post last week that I expected interest in ray-tracing to increase. So, there actually does appear to have been an uptick in Google searches on the term &#8220;ray-tracing,&#8221; looking at Google Trends. The last time there was as much interest was March 2010 (though other months in between have come close). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}