From 004c30f7a242abbe88979287f088779efce65971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Monko <timmonko@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:31:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] update handedness guide

---
 docs/guides/handedness.md | 15 ---------------
 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/guides/handedness.md b/docs/guides/handedness.md
index c645383cf..8220e1b8a 100644
--- a/docs/guides/handedness.md
+++ b/docs/guides/handedness.md
@@ -37,19 +37,6 @@ scale for each layer. This is good enough for many cases, but it sub-par when
 the data coordinates have an absolute correspondence to physical space — as is
 the case for latitude and longitude, for example:
 
-```{code-cell} python
----
-tags: [hide-input]
----
-# function to convert xarray metadata to napari layer metadata
-def get_scale_translate(dataset, array_name):
-    array = getattr(dataset, array_name)
-    dims = [getattr(dataset, dim) for dim in array.dims]
-    translate = [float(d[0]) for d in dims]
-    scale = [float(d[1] - d[0]) for d in dims]
-    return {'scale': scale, 'translate': translate}
-```
-
 ```{code-cell} python
 import napari
 import xarray as xr
@@ -58,10 +45,8 @@ sst = xr.tutorial.open_dataset('ersstv5')
 viewer, sst_layer = napari.imshow(
         sst.sst,
         name='sea surface temp',
-        **get_scale_translate(sst, 'sst'),
         colormap='magma',
         )
-viewer.dims.axis_labels = sst.sst.dims
 viewer.scene.overlays.axes.visible = True
 ```