Is there a way to determine if the Convex Hull of two polyhedra is going to be huge?

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So in this post:

Faster Algorithms for Convex Hulls

I was interested in determining if a convex hull of two $n$ dimensional polyhedra can be computed quickly, and the answer was in general: no, since for certain pairs of polyhedra the number of facets in the hull grows exponentially with the number of facets of the original constituents.

Now a natural question that follows is, given two polyhedra is it possible to estimate how many facets will be on their convex hull? What about how many facets up to a multiplicative factor $\epsilon$ of accuracy?

Ideas:

I'm really lost as far as techniques go. As the post revealed, two very innocent looking n-simplexes if placed in the right orientation can send you to $2^n$ facets, yet in another orientation result in only $2n$ facets, both almost equally spaced. It seems that once you know the shape and orientation of the pair, understanding how they are located w.r.t each other plays a crucial rule in determining the facet count.