Avid Field Lab

The machines behind the work, opened up.

Interactive 3D models of the systems Avid works with every day, from the heat pump in a grow house to the AI stack behind our platforms. Turn a dial, watch the physics respond, and leave knowing why it works.

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3D model of a centrifugal irrigation pump with its casing cut away — Inside a centrifugal irrigation pump

The models

Pick something and take it apart.

Interactive 3D

Energy & HVAC6 min

How a heat pump moves heat uphill

Follow refrigerant through a compressor, two coils and an expansion valve, then flip the reversing valve and watch heating become cooling.

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Interactive 3D

Agriculture5 min

How a spray drone steers with four propellers

Push the sticks on a crop spraying quadcopter. See how small speed differences between rotors tilt, turn and lift it, and how altitude sets the spray swath.

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Interactive 3D

Agriculture5 min

Inside a centrifugal irrigation pump

Open the volute, spin the impeller, and see why a small change in speed makes a big change in power. The affinity laws, live.

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Interactive 3D

Energy & HVAC5 min

Growing crops under solar panels

Move the sun across the sky, tilt the panels, turn on tracking, and see the trade between electricity and shade on the rows below.

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Interactive 3D

AI & Computing6 min

How an AI assistant looks things up before it answers

Ask a farm question and watch retrieval augmented generation find the nearest documents in a vector space, then hand them to a language model.

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Reference

IBM Technology20 technologies

IBM technology reference

Plain language explanations of the IBM and Red Hat technologies we build with, plus a searchable index of 7,430 IBM Docs pages.

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Read the short answer

Every model opens with the explanation in two or three plain sentences.

Change something

Move a slider, flip a mode, or step through the parts one at a time and watch what changes.

Check the source

Each page lists where the facts come from, so you can go deeper or quote it with confidence.

For the Avid team

Use these in the room.

The models are built for client meetings, workshops, apprenticeship classes and social posts. Open one on a laptop or tablet, step through it together, and share the link afterward. Every page works on phones.

Each model lives at /explore/<name> and shares one viewer, explore/lab.js.
Page copy and sources live in explore/build/content.py; IBM entries live in ibm_catalog.py.
Run python3 explore/build/build.py to regenerate the pages after an edit.
Refresh the IBM Docs index from Elmer's library with explore/build/export_ibm_index.py, then rebuild.