The film's code designer, Simon Whiteley, reportedly created the effect by scanning characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, has said he used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design.