As more and more powerful graphical processors be- come available on mainstream computers, it becomes possible to investigate the design of visually rich and fast interactive applications. In this article, we present S VGL , a graphical toolkit that enables programmers and design- ers of interactive applications to benefit from this power. The toolkit is based on a scene graph which is translated into an optimized display graph. After describing the algorithms used to display the scene, we show that the toolkit is two to fifty times faster than similar toolkits.