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Can i just say that we used to do that on mtb's in the 90's. Not the snowflake design but just a one double twist on the spokes. The idea was to make the whole thing stiffer, pretty much like the tied and soldered spokes on track bikes. Some people used to argue that you could use thinner spokes with this technique and have the same outcome.
HOWEVER you mustn't do this on the drive side of the rear wheel since the troque applied by the chain pulls forward and hence if the spokes are twisted they are weaker. My old rigid mtb still has this design and the wheelset is about 16 years old.