as the title said, I want to sample the current pixel in the layer and if the color is the same as one in the parameter, I need to find a way to return that position back to SwiftUI. Do you think that's possible? in Shader.Argument I didn't find a way to directly convert to a pointer.

so, my app needs to find the dominant palette and the position in the image of the k-most dominant colors. I followed the very useful sample project from the vImage documentation https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/bnns/calculating_the_dominant_colors_in_an_image and the algorithm works fine although I can't wrap my head around how should I go on about and linking said colors with a point in the image. Since the algorithm works by filling storages first, I tried also filling an array of CGPoints called LocationStorage and working with that //filling the array for i in 0...width { for j in 0...height { locationStorage.append( CGPoint(x: i, y: j)) } . . . //working with the array let randomIndex = Int.random(in: 0 ..< width * height) centroids.append(Centroid(red: redStorage[randomIndex], green: greenStorage[randomIndex], blue: blueStorage[randomIndex], position: locationStorage[randomIndex])) } struct Centroid { /// The red channel value. var red: Float /// The green channel value. var green: Float /// The blue channel value. var blue: Float /// The number of pixels assigned to this cluster center. var pixelCount: Int = 0 var position: CGPoint = CGPointZero init(red: Float, green: Float, blue: Float, position: CGPoint) { self.red = red self.green = green self.blue = blue self.position = position } } although it's not accurate. I also tried force trying every pixel in the image to get as close to each color but I think it's too slow. What do you think my approach should be? Let me know if you need additional info Please be kind I'm learning Swift.