There would be no 'Matrix' code without some sushi

Do you recall the barrage of green (matrix) codes you had seen running down the screen during the opening sequence of the Keanu Reeves starrer sci-fi film 'The Matrix'? Well, the codes that were imperative to existence in the virtual world, turned out to be nothing more than sushi recipes.

Yes, you heard it right. All those years of guessing and decoding led you to Japanese cookbooks.

Simon Whiteley, creator of The Matrix code, attributes the design to his wife, who's from Japan.

"I like to tell everybody that The 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 and visual-effects studio in Sydney.

He scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks. "Without that code, there is no Matrix," the production designer of the film told CNET.