colormap and mesh plots

I am making mesh plots for a book publication and I can not use color. Unfortunately, the colormap gray basically whitens-out a good part of the plot thereby losing detail. Is there any way to turn the thing around so that colormap gray has the lightest shading for the lowest numbers? Alternatively, are the any other options to make mesh plots in black and white that might keep more detail? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

colormap(flipud(gray))

[David Koenig]

Thanks! I will give it try.