Here are some sri yantras for you enjoyment. The novelty is that the sri yantras can grow their own petals!
For comparison, this sri yantra uses straight triangle sides, so the petals outside the yellow circle are added by hand.
This is similar to Yogani’s hand-drawn versions, and to most sri yantra drawings one can find on the internet.
But there are also traditional curved-line sri yantras. Particularly this one in the Chintamani Shiva temple I find intriguing and in some ways more pleasant looking. Notice that all tips of the yantra touch the circle thanks to the curvature of the triangle sides. This produces a petal-like effect of the yantra itself.
Here is a version of a circular arc sri yantra that gets close to what I see in the Chintamani Shiva temple one.
So far, nothing qualtitatively new. The novelity comes when the arcs defining the sri yantra are naturally extended outside of the yantra’s circumference. These extended arcs will intersect outside the yantra to form petals. So, the two yantras below grow their own petals without the need to add them by hand! However, the grown petals of most curved yantras, including the above one, look very irregular. To make the petals look somewhat regular, both yantras below have the tips of one row of the grown petals constrained to the touch a larger circle.
Lotus sri yantra with 1st ring of grown petals on a circle.
Lotus sri yantra with 2nd ring of grown petals on a circle.
On first glance the grown petals are somewhat similar to the hand-drawn two rings of petals. As far as I know, such grown lotus sri yantras have never been drawn before, and their effect when meditated upon might be different.
If you want to explore these yantras yourself, fine-tune their shape and color, check out this viewer. You can also export just the lines as vectors if you want to color the yantra yourself or print it on a large canvas.
The viewer uses an exact construction method that was vibe coded with an AI. For the straight yantra we used existing literature, but for the curved cases the AI came up with a novel method by itself. I always wanted a sri yantra viewer like this. And now it exists thanks to AI.