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.

While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, claims to have used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design ... What's False: ... the Japanese characters were mixed with ...

The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film, signifying how everything in the franchise's universe is a vast ...

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 not ...