A 3-D imaging system for projecting a 3-D panoramic illusion of an object to a viewer has two primary components: a camera having a pair of horizontally spaced anamorphic lenses capable of viewing and capturing a wide angle panoramic view of the object as a 2-D double-squeeze image; and a projector such as a movie projector or CRT for projecting the 2-D double-squeeze image through an image separator layer to the viewer, causing the viewer to perceive the wide angle panoramic view of the object as the 3-D panoramic illusion located in front of the image separator layer. The first anamorphic lens has a red transparent color filter for removing blue light, forming a red color filter image of the object. The second anamorphic lens has a blue transparent color filter for removing red light, forming a blue color filter image of the object. The red and blue color filter images are captured together as the 2-D double-squeeze image. The 2-D double-squeeze image is then projected by the projector through the image separator layer. The image separator layer is responsible for separating the red and blue color filter images from the 2-D double-squeeze image and directing the red color filter image to one of the viewer's eyes and the blue color filter image to the other of the viewer's eyes, thereby reproducing the light captured by the camera and creating the 3-D panoramic illusion of the object, the 3-D panoramic illusion being stretched from opposite sides into a wide angle panoramic image.
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