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.

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“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 ...

Without that code, there is no Matrix.” Advertisement The recipes in questions actually came from his wife’s cookbooks, he’d scanned them for the codes to make up the falling rain.

[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.