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 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 ...

Production designer Simon Whiteley got the idea from his wife's cookbook. If you’ve ever wondered what that green text in “The Matrix” really meant, prepare for an answer that’s almost as ...

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 ...