Talk:Matrix digital rain

message: “Several imitations were made, but to no avail.” This suggests that the creators were attempting to achieve a goal (from context, getting the W. brothers to release the original font), which doesn’t seem right. -Ahruman 10:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  (more) bad usage 

message: I'd thought the code was one of the many homages in the Matrix to the anime Ghost in the Shell? Journeyman 02:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghost in the Machine 

message: I'm not sure why, but sometimes, when my laptop would crash, it would go to a blank screen with a couple of characters resembling the matrix rain, but red rather than green.  Anyone know what this is?--Vercalos 02:58, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, a crashed computer might well have dropped back into the basic VGA text mode display - and the basic VGA character display does contain a lot of unusual non-ASCII characters, many of which are Japanese katekana which features a lot in the digital rain sequences.  So this isn't at all surprising or indicative of anything terribly meaningful.  A few bytes of random garbage sent to the display while the machine was trying to display the Blue Screen of Death but was too screwed up to do even that, is all very possible.  But if you should find guys in snappy black suits looking at you oddly - you might want to start looking for white rabbits. SteveBaker 05:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange with my laptop crash. 

message: Did anyone else notice the effect that they used in the Brinks home security advert on US television?  It uses a horizontal version of digital rain - but with 1's and 0's instead of the usual wild set of characters - I think they made the text pale blue.  But it wraps around 3D objects in just the way that Neo does towards the end of "The Matrix".  Dunno if it's worth mentioning in the article - but it's clearly a reference to the same idea. SteveBaker 05:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert for Brinks home security 

message: Hey Guys there exists a much cooler screensaver made by a guy name burning_thornbush. I have it at my computer but i'm unable to upload it. Maybe we should write this down anywhere 84.150.77.101 16:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screensaver 

message: Although the matrix rain does look like an asian language, it does not seem to resemble Korean at all. It seems more closely related to kanji. Also, your reference for this is not cited. I think that it should be changed to resembling Japanese. Either that, or it should be cited. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.177.11.143 (talk) 07:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code inspired by the Korean Language 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:JDF32.jpg

message: The article is a bit vague on just who is responsible for creating the digital rain's visual design.  Under the Background subheading, credit is given to "the creators of the Matrix".  Considering how many people worked on the first film, that doesn't really help.  As someone who knows almost nothing about the Matrix franchise, I can only assume that the article is referring to the Wachowski brothers but I'd like to be certain.  Also, the line that contains this particular information still lacks a citation, casting further doubt on the validity of the entire statement.  Could some kind soul possibly help clear things up a bit?
Nutgraph (talk) 13:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creator/Designer Clarification 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:MatrixCodeCloseUp.jpg

message: Website with screensavers is not available. Why were links to other matrix theme screensavers deleted? I think the version from March, 16, was correct.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandrilka (talk • contribs) 14:01, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "official screensavers" are not available 

message: The article says "The font used in the film was compiled by CGI Artist Lindsay Fleay", but the citation is a link to Lindsay's resume which just says "Built the central motif of the film, the streaming “Green Code”, which describes the virtual world that dominates the film; created an entire virtual scene where several characters and the set are made of Green Code. Also participated on some Agent transformation morphs." The resume never says that the font was compiled by Lindsay Fleay, just that he "built" the motif, which in resume speak may either mean that he personally built it or was part of a team that built it. Any other interpretation, including that he personally compiled the font, goes against the directive in WP:PRIMARY that you should not "analyze, synthesize, interpret, or evaluate material found in a primary source yourself; instead, refer to reliable secondary sources that do so." --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 13:09, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lindsay Fleay 

message: "The character Neo is the only human that can see the code of which avatars are composed while in the Matrix"
This is technically untrue, as there were 5 prior Ones that could do the same. I changed it to the more accurate "The character Neo is the only human shown in the films that can see the code of which avatars are composed while in the Matrix".
174.97.241.89 (talk) 21:39, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction 

message: On the pager there are two images. One is "An interpretation of digital rain" while the other is a "A screensaver". It's unclear how accurate these images are to the original. Why is there not just an image from the movie? - 86.158.48.113 (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no accurate version. It looks a little different from scene to scene and quite a bit different in each movie. The animation is simplified but reasonably accurate, the original (reference Matrix Movie at 1:04) is messier. Drops stop, start and shift rows additionally there are stuck letters, gaps and so on. This is not replicated in the animation because it makes the short loop time very obvious. The font is not correct ether, the movie uses an unavailable custom font. You can upload a small "fair use" image to the English Wikipedia if you want. --Jahobr (talk) 07:53, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does it actually look like in the film?