A buffer memory for rotating an image. The buffer memory is address-mapped in three dimensions including a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis, that are orthogonal to one another. Data may be sequentially accessed (read from or written to) the buffer memory in each of the direction of the first axis, the direction of the second axis, and the direction of the third direction. Second data may written to a given plane of the buffer memory at the same time that first data is read from the same plane of the buffer memory.