The most iconic screen effect ever: cascading green characters that made The Matrix (1999) instantly recognizable. Actually invented in Japan by Simon Whiteley who used katakana mirrored horizontally + numbers. Here you have the pure HTML5 canvas rendition.
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The characters in the movie are a mix of half-width katakana, Latin letters and numbers, all mirrored horizontally. The designer Simon Whiteley took inspiration from Japanese sushi cookbooks. The characters change but the "code" is not real code — it is deliberately obfuscated.