Here's a near 40% rendition of the final, I just need to know if I should rotate it 90 degrees in psp so it more resembles the code from the movies you all know and love. Also trying to consider thumbnailing ideas. I'm surprised that I care so much about this image; I haven't spent this much time on an image since Outpost and Monarchs before that, much less also incorporating an effect of which I'm still partially figuring out. Anyway, all advice is welcome.

Wow, I like !!!!!! :) Could be a little bit sharper in my opinion ! :)

The Final will be a lot sharper because it will be twice as big as this one, though it wont be as sharp as the WIPs of the individual symbols before this because they are too huge to work with the code stream. Nevertheless, I'll try sharpening it a bit in PSP6.

just a question, maybe i'm dumb, but what exactly are all those shapes made by the numbers/characters? drac (like notice the white highlights)

fabulous! Yeah, what ARE the shapes?

The matrix code is supposed to be a little data programed in a byte that has data programed for other bytes which have data for others.... Everything has information about everything else, thus being a matrix. Kinda like the BitTorrent postulate going on there for people who know what I'm talking about when I say bit torrent. Matrix refers to a mathematical problem which I'll make up an easy one that may or may not work out but just so you guys can get the idea: 5x-6y+z=8 4y+20z=2 x+z=11 It is possible to have multiple answers. I remember doing a lot of these in 8th grade Algebra 1 Honors. The white highlights on some of them are pure style, but the whole stream of code is supposed to be the programing of the computer program matrix that is supposed to make the enslaved humanity believe they live in the real world, but they are actually in a tube of pudding somewhere and their bioelectricity is being harvested by an overpowering army of evil machines. Yes, I am a matrix nerd, but i still do not know which rotation to have the final be.

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I don't think you get what we're asking... We want to know what the shapes in there that are created BY the matrix code are... Or were those just pure accident? (The swoosh things at the bottom, the two at the top that look like Jack O Lantern eyes, etc.)

Well, I don't know either, and the best thing about the matrix movies is that they are open to multiple interpretations. I just did a three symbol close-up because I wanted them to have more significance. Why I did is anyone's guess, but the large symbols are actually pretty close to some obscure bits of the code from the movie. I actually rented the movie from the Agoura Public Library, paused it when Neo starts to believe in his "Oneness" and sees the code for the first time, and drew some random symbols, then picked three somewhat easy ones to do in the MoonGoat effect. According to a font i found though, it says DCC. It was someones idea though, to add a string of binary for their girlfriend's name so I'll try and get one done before posting. I still have had ZERO feedback on rotation or not. I guess I'll flip a coin...