1. Autostereoscopic imaging apparatus comprising, in combination an imaging plane; a lens having an optical axis, said lens focusing images of a three-dimensional object on said imaging plane; an optical element defining a lens aperture, said optical element located adjacent said lens, such that the object image is created from light passing through the lens aperture; and an operator coupled to move said optical element, such as to produce a parallax scanning motion of the lens aperture relative to the optical axis of said lens to record on said imaging plane a succession of recordings of the object image which, when successively displayed at a view cycle sequencing rate of three to six Hz, produce an autostereoscopic image of said object on a conventional, two-dimensional display.