Turning y axis upside down in MATLAB

Question

Is there a way to turn the y axis upside down in matlab plots, so that the positive direction of the y axis, instead of up, points down ?

(I beg of you; please do not say, print it out, then turn the paper around ;-)

Answer 1

You can change the y-axis direction of the currently active axes with the following:

set(gca,'YDir','reverse');

For a complete list of all the axes properties you can modify, check out this documentation page.