CAMERAS 

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Edmund Optics.  A wide range of competitively priced optical and opto-mechanical parts
http://www.edmundoptics.com/

Optics and opto-mechanics, lasers, incorporating New focus, Oriel, Richardson, Spectra-Physics, etc.
http://www.newport.com/

ThorLabs.  Optical and opto-mechanical hardware, metric posts
http://www.thorlabs.us/index.cfm?

Micro-Tools.  Supplies for servicing and cleaning cameras
http://www.micro-tools.com/

OPTICS 

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LUXEON high-powered LEDs
http://www.luxeonstar.com/

Coherent "structured light" sheet-generating lasers (formerly Stocker-Yale)
http://www.coherent.com/products/?1825/Structured-Light-Lasers/

LIGHTING 

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Newark.  Second-day shipping on everything
http://www.newark.com/

Radio Surplus
http://www.rselectronics.com/


Acifica: "Best deals on motorcycle trunks, hard saddlebags, and Mastech power supply."
The power supplies are indeed good value for the money.

http://shop.vendio.com/evan2002/

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Custom acrylic filming arenas consturcted by
http://www.precisionplasticsinc.com/

Granite Machine Works
2372 S Taylor Ave, Fresno

LinMot Linear Actuators
http://www.linmot-usa.com/

NPM Linear Actuators
http://nipponpulse.com/

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CARNIVOROUS PLANTS 

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Gnu Image Manipulation Program
http://www.gimp.org/

CinePaint:  a GIMP fork that can accomodate 16-bit-per-channel image depth.  Used to retouch Harry Potter frames!  No longer under development, it seems.
http://www.cinepaint.org/

VirtualDub for processing .avi video
http://www.virtualdub.org/

Audacity for audio recording and editing
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Ctrax:  2D digitization of fuit fly trajectories
http://www.dickinson.caltech.edu/ctrax
/

Biomechanical digitization tools from the Hedrick lab
http://www.unc.edu/~thedrick/software1.html/

Open Source Image Velocimetry (the documentation project needs your help)
http://osiv.sourceforge.net/

Engauge:  multi-platform digitization software, extracts numerical values from images of plots
http://digitizer.sourceforge.net/

OSLO:  powerful optical design software, the "edu" version is limited to 10 interfaces
http://www.lambdares.com/buy/educators-and-students

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These pages are maintained with the aid of KompoZer 0.8b3 (back up your directories often)
http://kompozer.net/

Thorough documentation of KompoZer
http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/kz-ug-home.htm/

A KompoZer guide for absolute beginners
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com/index.html/

CSS magic
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ 

WEB DESIGN 

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