If your polargraph is tethered to your computer and you've tried to draw a "rasterbated" (or "StippleGened") image, you probably stopped the drawing before it was done. It takes a long time to draw those little vector circles.
But what if they weren't circles?
I've found if you convert the circles to squares (I do this in Inkscape), it will speed up the drawing considerably. A rasterbated image that I had previously tried to draw (that contains ~10,000 circles) and stopped when I estimated it would take over 90 hours to draw, took ~20.5 hours after converted to squares. (I said "speedier", not "speedy"). This time comparison is invalidated by the fact that I'm now using the new controller with faster communication, which I wasn't before. However, I've verified that even in the new controller those circles are much slooower to draw than squares.
Here's an example image with squared "dots":

If anybody is interested in more detailed instructions for the conversion process, let me know.
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