'The Matrix' rain of green, digital code ... Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," says Whiteley, a production designer from England who's now based at the Animal Logic animation ...

'The Matrix' rain of green, digital code ... Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," says Whiteley, a production designer from England who's now based at the Animal Logic animation ...

The Matrix code, on the other hand, is stylized as katakana, which are syllabic characters used for spelling foreign words. "My wife and I have this funny argument at home," says Whiteley.

Want to take Matrix-style digital rain on ... encoded time signal of the simulation we are all living in with his word clock that displays time using a stylish Matrix code animation ...

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

“I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes,” Whiteley tells CNet in a new interview. He says he scanned the characters from his wife’s Japanese ...

[Photo by: Dark Seryth/YouTube] At the begining of every Matrix film comes one of the most easily recognizable visuals in the film's franchise—the falling green code.

One of the most visually striking elements in the Keanu Reeves starrer ‘The Matrix’ was the cascading green code. The inspiration behind the digital rain will surprise you to the core.

The production designer of the "Matrix" films and "The Lego Ninjago Movie," which is out now, takes CNET down a rabbit hole of Zack Snyder, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lego.