to appear pixelated and discontinuous the device described will allow for complete automation of the stereogram recording process while at the same time advantageously providing for recording a continuous image free of this artifact embodiments of the projection apparatus for holographic stereogram recording referred to as 34 projection apparatus 34 can take a variety of forms a general description of several will be given herein fig2 demonstrated the first embodiment of the invention the apparatus shown in fig2 consists of a liquid crystal display device 11 a single polarizing sheet 12 a diffusing screen 13 and a microlens arrays 14 in this representation the microlens array 14 has a perfect fill factor that is there is no gap between adjacent lenses 10 the plane wave 15 incident on the microlens array is focused through the apertures 16 17 of the lcd 11 because laser light is used in the recording process the incident light field 15 can be appropriately polarized so that the initial polarization screen used in most lcd 39 s is not necessary as the light passes through the liquid crystal layer 18 of the lcd 11 between the entrance aperture 16 and the exit aperture 17 the polarization of the light is manipulated emerging from the exit aperture 17 the light from each pixel encounters a polarizing sheet 12 called the analyzer which controls the transmission of light according to its polarization state the light.