On geometry of isophote curves in Galilean space

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce isophote curves on surfaces in Galilean 3-space. Apart from the general concept of isophotes, we split our studies into two cases to get the axis d of isophote curves lying on a surface such that d is an isotropic or a non-isotropic vector. We also give a method to compute isophote curves of surfaces of revolution. Subsequently, we show the relationship between isophote curves and slant (general) helices on surfaces of revolution obtained by revolving a curve by Euclidean rotations. Finally, we give some characterizations for isophote curves lying on surfaces of revolution.