How can I invert the distribution of colors in a colormap, in MATLAB 8.1 (R2013a)?

For example, in the following figure

load flujet

image(X)

colormap(hot)

colorbar

the colormap's lower value is dark red/black, while its higher value is yellow/white.

Is there a way to flip the colormap (i.e. lower numerical values to be yellow/white and higher numerical values to be represented as darkred/black) without having to create a new colormap manually?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The solution in this case would be to flip the values of the colormap, using the command:

colormap(flipud(hot))