zeux/meshoptimizer

Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render

Games & graphicsC++#gpu#mesh-processing#optimization#compression#simplification

3.9 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 26, 2026, 11:40 UTC.

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About the project

C/C++ library for optimizing triangle meshes: indexing, vertex cache and fetch optimization, quantization, simplification and compression to make GPU rendering faster and data smaller.

Useful for

Optimize a glTF model with gltfpack to reduce size and speed up rendering
Generate an index buffer and remap table for an unindexed mesh
Simplify a high-poly mesh for an LOD system in a game engine

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Why it’s trending

10 stars so far today, about 33 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 4 per day, so that's 8.1× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 12× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +74 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 8,438
Today: 10 · ≈ 33 by evening
Forks: 748
Issues and pull requests: 888
Watchers: 140
Language: C++
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.3 · September 25, 2026
Created: September 9, 2016
Last push: September 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 26, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +74 stars

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