Title: Flexible Rendering and Interaction for 3d Statistical Visualization. Two R packages, RGL and GIR, were implemented in the last few years, providing the ability to visualise data in 3D with varying level of flexibility and ease of use. However, the facilities for interacting with scenes are quite limiting. On the other hand, with the help of Gtk2, GGobi provides a rich set of controls for its plots, but it is limiting in its 3D rendering capabilities. As a first attempt to achieve the best of both worlds, an OpenGL based toolkit was built so that, along with the GUI toolkit of choice, applications with flexible 3D rendering and interactive capabilities can be built with relative ease. In this talk, the toolkit will be introduced and the process of creating new applications will be described. Issues with the approach and pointers for future development will also be covered, if time permits.