The iconic green falling code in *The Matrix* may seem like a deep, mysterious symbol of the virtual world, but in reality, it's based on something far simpler—sushi recipes. Simon Whiteley ...

Other than Keanu Reeves dodging bullets in slow-motion or Laurence Fishburne waxing poetic about the sham nature of our ...

I love that idea that it's about something so mechanical, but amongst it the actual code is extracted from something so organic and free-flowing." Matrix code creator Simon Whiteley Whiteley ...

The Matrix’s iconic title sequences are made up of falling “digital rain”, which, upon closer inspection, was actually thousands of lines of binary code. Until now, I always assumed this ...

"I like to tell everybody that "The Matrix''s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," Whiteley told CNet in a recent interview. He claims he scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese ...

Whiteley is a production and art designer who was tasked with the design of ‘The Matrix’ and that included the code you see all over the film. Whiteley is currently out on a press tour ...

THE MATRIX has guarded its biggest mystery until now. What was all that indecipherable green code running down the screen. Did it hold the secrets to the very essence of reality itself?

The falling lines of code - used to represent the Matrix itself - has remained mysterious since the film's release in 1999, but the secret behind the actual symbols is quite mundane. In the movie ...

Green code in Japanese-inspired symbols trails down a computer screen like digital rain. It tells those who can read it what's happening in The Matrix, a virtual reality. Simon Whiteley ...