The creators of the Matrix claim the look was inspired by the Korean language credits at the end of the movie Tron. No official version of the code's typeface actually used in the Matrix trilogy and in the website for the game Path of Neo has been released.
Several imitations have been made. Sound designer Dane A. Davis digitized raindrops against window panes to create the sound of the letters as they rotate and fall. Though uncredited in the films, Simon Whiteley created the Matrix code. In an interview with CNet, he said that he scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks, saying "I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes".
Because of the popularity of the movies, the effect has become noted in itself and a part of pop culture. It has influenced other franchises and has been used in new-tech advertisements, TV spots, video-clips, posters and appeared in other high-tech topics, such as flash intros of cyberpunk related websites. Code similar to that in The Matrix can be seen in an earlier movie Alien , directed by Ridley Scott.
There is a scene where Captain Dallas is "talking" with Mother and the "Matrix code" can be seen even the word 'matrix' is written in the Mother Program main menu screen. Another similarity is where Lt. Ripley Sigourney Weaver is seen looking at a monitor with a "green matrix code" and she is interpreting the code and understands that the transmission was no S.
In the book Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Asked 9 years, 4 months ago. Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 21k times. Improve this question. They must be using the on-board graphics. They really should invest in a graphics card. Your metaphor alone on watching a movie from an hex editor deserves as many upvotes as it gets. He's not manually reading each line and deliberately hacking to allow himself to fly etc. The code we see is a result of his breaking free, not the cause of it.
Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. KutuluMike KutuluMike k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I disagree that the Agents aren't "contrained at all by the rules of the world". In fact they follow many of the constraints: they cannot fly, they cannot launch nuclear bombs out of their eyes, they cannot transform into dragons, they cannot teleport at random while in a fight, they cannot insta-kill their enemies, etc, etc.
My impression was always that the agents are constrained only by their programming. Their main directive is to prevent someone revealing the Matrix, so they cannot turn around and do things to jeopardize that. But they clearly move at super-human speed, jump from body to body, etc. MichaelEdenfield is right. The Agents are just programs -- programs that are programmed to be better than ordinary humans. Only Neo and later Smith can transcend their current state. Only they have limitless potential.
Peter Parker Peter Parker 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. I like the idea of a debugger view very much, but debugging generally takes much more real time than just running. The programmer needs time to inspect the aspect that interests him. Nowadays it already takes a lot of time to debug a program, how can Neo be faster by debugging something like the Matrix?
It is a much more interactive experience. By being "the one" he fully unlocks his somewhat superpower abilities to modify the matrix in realtime and faster. Normal gifted hackers, like mouse, morpheus or trinity just can modify single aspects and mostly not in realtime, by uploading certain tools eg. Add a comment. And Wikipedia conveniently provides a very nice graphic: The "code" view that Neo is seeing, I think, is the Machine equivalent to the first or second image in this series.
Izkata Izkata There's a delay between your eye receiving photons and the brain processing them less than 1 ms, I believe , but for events fast enough, they're essentially invisible to humans. I think you're simply confusing cause and effect.
David Stratton David Stratton Kevin Kevin Here's the compiled Linux kernel, flip the right bits in the binary to make it prioritise processes who's owner belong to the group human but are currently not running any process which were started from a binary which has its suid bit set "Agents".
Oh, while you're figuring that out, I'm shooting at you. Have fun : — bitmask. John Robertson John Robertson 4 4 bronze badges. The better question would be, how does he carry out said changes?
Stick Stick 5, 2 2 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Actually we know from the Animatrix and Web Comics canon that code view is intended to be taken literally.
Actually we know from my answer that I said onscreen but I appreciate the downvote for not referencing every piece of supplemental data associated to The Matrix trilogy. Honestly at some point there should be some recognition that an EU answer for any given series is at least "as bad" as one that is entirely speculative; nothing occurs during The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, or The Matrix Revolutions which suggests I am incorrect, and the two works you've cited are supplemental and incredibly subjective the numbers at the end of World Record don't even look like Matrix code.
If you're going to make a sweeping statement, you have to accept that you need to know the whole canon. That's just crazy. Honestly, I think Stick is right.
Just because the sequels and offshoots are "canon", doesn't mean they reflect or change the original intention of the first screenplay. Writers will sometimes change the intention of a plot element at a later time.
It's therefore possible, and IMO likely, that the code was merely an allegory at the time of writing the original screenplay; later in sequels and offshoots they could have revisited that plot element and changed its meaning as their plot intentions d evolved.
Upcoming Events. November Topic Challenge: Samuel R. What if it's all been programmed? As the months and years went on, and The Matrix got picked apart, folks began to wonder where the movie's now-famous "digital rain" came from. The answer turned out to be far more fascinating than any of the film's mysteries.
The code, as CNET reported in , was, in fact, just a bunch of sushi recipes. He says he ended up working on the digital rain after Lana and Lilly Wachowski vetoed a previous sequence that a design team working on The Matrix had created. They wanted something that was more Japanese, more manga," Whiteley says.
So Whiteley went home and began browsing through the "stacks of Japanese cookbooks" owned by his wife, looking for inspiration. One recipe book in particular caught his eye and the recipes therein served as the basis for what would eventually become the film's iconic falling code.
Over the following weeks, Whiteley painstakingly designed and painted each Japanese letter by hand. Originally, Whiteley says, the letters were supposed to flow across the screen from left to right, but when he saw the animation he says it "wasn't evoking any emotion for me.
Whiteley returned to the source. Like most Japanese texts, the recipe books were written "back to front" and sentences were read top to bottom.
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