How to increase number of facets for cylinder plotting in Makie

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I am plotting a cylinder in makie like so:

julia> cyl = GeometryBasics.Cylinder(GeometryBasics.Point(0.0,0.0,0.0),GeometryBasics.Point(0.0,1.0,0.0),.5)
Cylinder3{Float64}([0.0, 0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0, 0.0], 0.5)

julia> mesh(cyl,transparency = false, overdraw = false, color = :cyan)

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This is coarsely faceted. How can I increase the number of facets that Makie plots? This is not an intrinsic property of the GeometryBasics.cylinder object. It is computed on the fly by the faces function, which I’m guessing Makie calls to get the mesh faces for the object.

But the Makie.mesh function doesn’t seem to have a keyword argument to control the number of faces to use when triangulating the cylinder.

I looked at the GeometryBasics.mesh function, thinking I could create a polygon mesh myself with a large number of faces. But this function doesn’t seem to have a keyword argument for controlling the number of faces either.

How can the number of faces used to plot these geometric primitives be increased?

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Thanks to @sdanisch, I learned this trick to accomplish this the other day

Makie.normal_mesh(Makie.Tesselation(Makie.GeometryBasics.Cylinder(p1, p2, radius), num_facets))