A snowflake of order is formed by overlaying an equilateral triangle (rotated by degrees) onto each equilateral triangle of the same size in a snowflake of order . A snowflake of order is a single equilateral triangle.
Some areas of the snowflake are overlaid repeatedly. In the above picture, blue represents the areas that are one layer thick, red two layers thick, yellow three layers thick, and so on.
For an order snowflake, let be the number of triangles that are one layer thick, and let be the number of triangles that are three layers thick. Define .
E.g. , , . , , .
Further, and .
Find .
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