MaxCellMeasure fails in 3D?

Question

Question

How come MaxCellMeasure works in 2D but fails in 3D?

Indeed if I try

Table[DiscretizeRegion[ImplicitRegion[x^2 + y^2 <= 1, {x, y}], 
   MaxCellMeasure -> res] // {#, ByteCount[#]} &, {res, {1, 0.1, 
   0.01}}]// Transpose

It works as expected (i.e. the quality of the mesh, and its size increases). Whereas this does not

Table[DiscretizeRegion[
    ImplicitRegion[x^2 + y^2 + z^2 == 1, {x, y, z}], 
    MaxCellMeasure -> res] // {#, ByteCount[#]} &, {res, {1, 0.1, 
    0.01}}] // Transpose

Let me apologize in advance if this is a RTFM question. The documentation is such a maze on these new (cool) Mesh features.

Comment

Note that this fails but only partially:

Table[DiscretizeRegion[
    ImplicitRegion[x^2 + y^2 + z^2 <= 1, {x, y, z}], 
    MaxCellMeasure -> res] // {#, ByteCount[#]} &, {res, {1, 0.1, 
    0.01}}] // Transpose

which might be a clue??

Answer 1

As @RunnyKine mentioned, Try replacing MaxCellMeasure -> res with MaxCellMeasure -> {"Area" -> res} seems to partially work:

Table[DiscretizeRegion[
    ImplicitRegion[x^2 + y^2 + z^2 == 1, {x, y, z}], 
    MaxCellMeasure -> {"Area" -> res}] // {#, 
     ByteCount[#]} &, {res, {1, 0.1, 0.01}}] // Transpose