The RTVR library has been used as a basis for a volume viewer, which can be used for fast volume viewing and exploration. Visualization settings created with the viewer (extracted objects and visualization parameters) can be stored using a compact representation (typically just a few hundred kilobytes [40], chapter 5) for later interactive viewing or for publication on the Internet. The viewer supports all features of RTVR, providing full control over the contents of look-up tables and their configuration, separate rendering and shading modes for all objects, as well as the per-object application of arbitrary clipping planes, and the possibility to capture visualization sessions for the creation of animation sequences.
An applet version of the viewer which provides the above described functionality, except for the extraction and creation of new objects, can be used to view previously stored data within web pages. Some pages which use the applet for the presentation of volume data can be found at http://www.vrvis.at/vis/research/compression/ and http://www.vrvis.at/vis/research/rtvr/.