Is there such a thing as animated QR codes? And could they work? Even those who may not know how exactly QR codes work have pretty much been exposed to them by now.

The production designer behind ’The Matrix’ spills on where all that green code came from.

Perhaps a combination of IR reflective and absorbing material could make large codes without being visible to the human eye. How would you make a machine-washable, machine-readable visual code?

Simon Whiteley, the film's designer behind the code, reportedly scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks to create the design.