Oroville Chinese Temple Incense Burner

3D Model

The Oroville (California) Chinese Temple (列聖宮) is a folk religious temple built in 1863. Today, it is owned by the city and functions as a museum to the area’s Chinese diaspora as well as occasionally being used for worship. You can learn more about the site from the City of Oroville website.

This 3D model is of the incense burner located at the entrance to the site’s main building. It was constructed with Metashape from 115 photos, and post-processing completed in Blender. Some areas are not fully reconstructed due to the lighting at the site. A full 3D documentation would require additional lighting and up to another 100 photographs. Still, as a quick documentation (~5 minutes of photographing and 1 hour of processing), this is a good representation of the object.