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Yantra drawing

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Tool comparison

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• Adobe illustrator, CorelDraw: heavy duty drawing programs can handle text & graphics. (MT)
  • downside, expensive. Also former has learning curve.
• Inkscape: free vector graphics quite good for maNDala-s. (MT)
  • downside - handling nAgarI fonts.
• Geogebra: best for geometric figures with complex constructions where even the trigonometry can be involved. Handles nAgarI fonts well. (MT)
  • Downside: not great at exporting vector formats.
• TikZ for LaTeX: good aesthetics; has internal calculation capacity but if involved I supplement it with calculations done in R. Gives good aesthetics & intuitively human-understandable language. Can be learned relatively quickly with examples. (MT)