1. A method comprising: receiving a set of component images for forming a composite image; defining a projection for the set of images transforming each component image into a projected component image; and rendering the projected component images to form the composite image, and where rendering each component image includes: decomposing a rotation of the projection into separate rotations for each axis; rotating the component image along a first axis; separately identifying pixel values for each row and each column of the projected component image; and rotating the image along a third axis to form a rendered component image.