Get Texture RGBA Info at Mesh UV Coordinates

[atomic python]

I found this Stack Overflow post that seems to be what I need, but I was wondering if there is a more elegant / simpler way to do this. I need to get the texture's color value based on the uv coordinate of a mesh. I know how to do this in the shader, but I need to do this outside of my shaders because the texture's color value is going to be setting uniforms for multiple meshes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35005603/get-color-of-the-texture-at-uv-coordinate

[warped edge]

I think HTMLCanvas (as in the post above) is how I'd do this too. There's no general way to sample from a THREE.Texture directly, without unpacking it into something else.

There are packages that could abstract that a bit, like https://github.com/donmccurdy/ndarray-pixels. But it's really the same thing under the hood.