Matrix
By Jeremy Sachs
A familiar code rain graphics demo. There are so many rubbish Matrix screensavers, [Jeremy Sachs](/artists/jeremy-sachs) (aka Rezmason) wanted to do it right. Read the repo’s readme file for more information. Two fun details: my knowledge of signed distance fields from Scourge (see below) was a big help, and he rebuilt the matrix font in Illustrator that some digital agency partially left in an old SWF by mistake. Jeremy has been featured at [CODAME](/orgs/codame) using Matrix by remixing the scans as part of modbod-3d project. In 2020 Jeremy migrated the project to regl, a functional WebGL wrapper that's a better fit for graphic effects like this one. In 2021, in anticipation of the latest installment in the movie franchise, Jeremy added a "3D mode", along with an expanded font painstakingly recovered from promotional material. I also migrated the project once again, to WebGPU, the web's next low-level graphics and GPU compute API. Additionally, Jeremy got my hands on a [Looking Glass](/orgs/codame/projects/looking-glass) Portrait and worked out how to display this effect holographically, ie. by rendering the effect from multiple vantage points simultaneously. You can check the code on https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix This project was featured in Vice Motherboard , along with insight into the effect from Lilly Wachowski.