Creating a Droste Effect

Question

Is there any way to achieve a Droste effect in LaTeX?

For instance, I'd like to generate a floating figure that contains a rendering of the page it is included in.

Is this what you have in mind? https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/234399/7883 — Thérèse, Jun 17 '15 at 13:34
pretty much, thanks. now I need to figure how to get a single page in that box... — Siapran, Jun 17 '15 at 13:37
I have to admit that I don't exactly understand how to reproduce the same thing without the picture environment, can anyone explain? — Siapran, Jun 17 '15 at 14:00

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '15 at 14:29

Here is an example using \includegraphics:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{Drost effect}
\author{Droste}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\lipsum[1]

\IfFileExists{\jobname-copy.pdf}{
  \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \framebox{\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth,page=1]{\jobname-copy}}
    \caption{Droste effect}
  \end{figure}
}

\end{document}

Repeat the following commands:

pdflatex document.tex
cp document.pdf document-copy.pdf

After some iterations, you get:

enter image description here

Creating a Droste Effect

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