The green, falling digital code depicted as rain in the film "The Matrix" consisted of Japanese sushi recipes.

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, the ...

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.

‘The Matrix’ Code’s Hidden Meaning Has Been Revealed, and There’s Something Fishy About It Production designer Simon Whiteley got the idea from his wife's cookbook.

The mystery to The Matrix code has been solved. The creator of the neon green digital rain, Simon Whiteley, told CNet the code was inspired by nothing more than his wife's Japanese sushi recipe.

The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film, signifying how everything in the franchise's universe is a ...