Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to create the design.

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 creator of the mysterious neon green code used in the “Matrix” films says his wife’s cookbooks sparked its creation. The creator of the mysterious neon green code used in the “Matrix ...

Where did The Matrix 's green code language come from? Speaking with CNET in 2017, the code's designer, Simon Whiteley, revealed that the now-famous green code (also known as "digital rain" among ...

Two-dimensional matrix codes that contain information that can be quickly scanned by a computer are being put to new uses seemingly every day.