Clay Bavor writes about personal projects, including making a screen look like a real framed picture, plus mosaic and neural-generated prints.
Commenters repeatedly link his canvas-of-pixels post as an impressive example of a realistic LCD photo frame, praising its photodiode brightness matching.
You kinda can, but there are no 32" iPads and none will look like E-Ink.
The closest I think you could go for is to have a monitor with precise brightness control and measure the wall brightness and adjust the monitor brightness to fit. Something like this was posted once and I'm sure it was done by more people, but here is an example: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
It's not a new idea, but a very effective one. There was an article on here a while ago where someone converted a 5K iMac screen into a "real" picture hanging on the wall, complete with wooden frame and white point shifting:
http://www.claybavor.com/?p=407
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10900439
I've seen this hack in person and it is very convincing. The way to avoid the backlight problem is to frontlight the whole scene.
This embedded imac also has the cool feature of never changing if someone is looking at it.
https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
Someone did something like this with a torn-apart 5k iMac, mounting the display in a gilded frame and having it cycle through various images of fine art but only when the camera determined that nobody was looking at it.
https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
I had to search for a bit but I managed to find it: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
It's been referenced on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.claybavor.com%2F&sort=byPopularity&type=all
"A year ago over the holiday break, I created a large-scale digital “canvas”" posted December 27, 2015
https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
He claims to have invented it prior to Apple, but he didn't publish before they got their patent in.