The Matrix’s iconic title sequences are made up of falling “digital rain”, which, upon closer inspection, was actually thousands of lines of binary code. Until now, I always assumed this code must ...

It was brought to light that the codes were created by Simon Whiteley, a production designer from England after he scanned the characters from his wife’s Japanese cookbooks.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

The movies' approach to both mental liberation, and a kind of physical transformation (which reads like a transition), carries with it the idea of coming out. At the heart of this is the change in ...