Real-Time Mesh Generation and Geometry Processing: A Practical Guide for Developers: How 3D Meshes Are Really Built — Practical Programming with Direct3D 10/11 (Guru Series)

What is a 3D mesh, really?
This book explains how 3D meshes are actually constructed, stored, and processed in real-world graphics programs.
If you have ever wondered why vertices are duplicated or why UVs do not fit neatly, this book is for you.

Mesh Guru is a practical guide to understanding the true structure of 3D mesh data through implementation.
Rather than focusing on rendering effects or high-level theory, this book dives into how meshes are built, transformed, and prepared for the GPU.
Using Direct3D 10/11 as a concrete framework, the concepts explained here apply to modern real-time graphics programming in general.

This book covers:

How vertices, indices, normals, and UVs are really organized

Why vertex duplication is unavoidable in real mesh data

The relationship between geometry data and GPU buffers

Practical mesh construction and conversion techniques

Common misconceptions found in many graphics tutorials

This book is intended for:

Graphics programmers who want to understand mesh data at a low level

Developers using Direct3D, OpenGL, Vulkan, or similar APIs

Readers who prefer concrete code and data structures over abstract explanations

Mesh Guru is part of the Guru Series , a collection of practical books that focus on how graphics systems actually work—through code, data, and real implementations.