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Refer to Pythagoras tree (fractal) in the link. In the article "Varying the angle", the construction rule is changed from the standard Pythagoras tree by changing the base angle from 90 degrees to 60 degrees. It is easily seen that the size of the unit squares remains constant and equal to sin(30 degrees)/(1/2) = 1. The first overlap occurs at the fifth generation (n=4). The general pattern produced is the rhombitrihexagonal tiling, an array of hexagons bordered by the constructing squares. a(n) gives total count of squares in n-th generation which excluding the overlap into (n-1)-th generation and count only 1 for the overlap among current one. See illustration.

Conjecture: In the limit n -> infinity this construction produces one of the eight planar semiregular tessellations (one of the 11 Archimedean tessellations, the other three being regular). This is the tessellation (3,4,6,4) because of the sequence of regular 3-, 4- and 6-gons around each vertex. See the Eric Weisstein link. - Wolfdieter Lang, Nov 23 2014

Growth of the Pythagoras tree based on the triangle with internal angles of 30, 60 and 90 degrees.

The generating rule is expansion in sequential order on each stage; the larger squares (opposite to the 60 deg angle) come first. The generating order labeled by "stage-number" starts as 1-1; 2-1, 2-2; 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4;...and so on. Overlap is prohibited, i.e., if any part of a new element in the next generating order cuts into any previous (existing, lower order) one, that new elements will be not be inserted/added: lower generating orders have precedence over higher generating orders.

The non-overlap rule limits the growth of the sequence to a(n+1) <= 2*a(n).

For Pythagoras tree based on isosceles right triangle with the same rule, the sequence will be A053599(n-1) + 1.