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? Apparently ...

You'll Never Guess What Those Green Codes From ‘The Matrix’ Actually Are By Kelcie Mattson Updated Mar 31, 2024 Follow ...

If you remember, the film featured a cascading green code that rained down the screen. Source of The Matrix’s Digital Rain That code has a surprising, rather weird, origin story behind it.

Munchies spotted a CNET report on the origins of the green code that waterfalls down the screen as the movie—and its successors—opens by way of Simon Whiteley.

“I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes,” Whiteley muses. To quote Neo, “ whoa. ” The recipes could literally be anything.

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.

“Why not use old code to make something new?” a character can be heard saying off screen. This is perhaps the biggest clue into what is going on in “Matrix Resurrections,” and seems to ...