This effect was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
Filled Hexagonal Tiles™ - Giving unfilled hexagonal tiles an inferiority complex since 2008.
*Fire up the editor and you'll find two additional versions. One that does away with the independent H/V controls, and another that works exclusively with the 'Size, pixels' slider.
**For extra fun try experimenting with the shape sliders on the impulse curve.
***Props to matrix and ThreeDee for their contributions to the fraction control.
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