A fan-made, open-source recreation of The Machine from Person of Interest. Its point of view runs on your own Mac and iPhone cameras. It boxes everyone it sees, recognizes you as ADMIN, and issues numbers. Every box and label was checked against frames from all five seasons.
The console runs right here in your browser on a mock city of 500 people. Best on a desktop screen. Keys 1–6 switch pages.
[1] THE CONSOLE
[2] RUN IT ON YOUR OWN CAMERAS
What the MPOV does
- Boxes every person on your Mac and iPhone cameras
- Enroll yourself as ADMIN: yellow box, "GOOD EVENING, ADMIN."
- Someone picks up a knife: white box with red corners, then THREAT
- The Machine issues a number. It never says why.
- Follows you from camera to camera
Quick start (macOS)
Needs uv and ffmpeg. The first run downloads the models and stock footage.
brew install uv ffmpeg git clone https://github.com/rosehahah/the-machine cd the-machine && ./run.sh
Faces stay on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
[3] THANK YOU
With deep thanks to Person of Interest.
To Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, J.J. Abrams, the writers, the cast and the crew: thank you for five seasons, for Harold and John, Root and Shaw, Fusco and Carter, Bear, and for The Machine. We love this show so much.
Every box, label and frame here was rebuilt by studying the episodes, one frame at a time. This project exists because of you.