Many regard his comic book Tsai's Illustrations, which explores the Chinese mathematical classics Map of the Yellow River and the Book of the Luo River, and Hanhsin Counting his Troops, as an outstanding mathematical reference work.
不少人翻閱他詮釋中國古代數學河圖洛書、韓信點兵而繪出的「蔡氏插圖」，都覺得是一本絕佳的數學參考書。