The bamboo sculpture in this picture is in the UQ Anthropology Museum and is approximately 35 cm in height, with a curved bottom and no internal padding.
This is Chinese art form called Bamboo Carving. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of Chinese Bamboo Carving Art, and with the participation and advocacy of literati artists, folk bamboo carving became an art form. The use of bamboo carving was mainly as a brush holder and incense holder.
In the Digital Heritage course at UQ, we learned how to create 3D models, which was done in two main parts. The first part is camera shooting, and the second part is creating 3D images through professional procedures.
We didn’t create a full 3D model because the lighting issue wasn’t handled properly, mainly because when shooting the top and bottom of the bamboo carving , the lighting wasn’t bright enough, resulting in the image of the center area being missing.
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