Abstract The overall acceptance and easy access to the World Wide Web (WWW) makes it to an interesting media for the exchange of a wide range of research information. But unfortunately there is no fully functional Internet technique available for real interactive 3D visualisation up to now. The basic WWW concept, high net traffic and slow Internet servers prevent the interactive exchange of large 3D-datasets. Techniques which supports offline rendering may become a solution to work around these problems until more satisfying techniques for interactive work in the WWW are available.